> It's time to upgrade my libraries and I need to know about egcs and
> glibc. Are there problems with either of these?
Yes. There are quite a few problems. With threads, for example, and some other
stuff also broken in current glibc.
> How will they affect kernel compiles?
glibc will not affect kernel compilation at all (only if you'll find completely
broken glibc this could prevent some programs from working at all :-)
> What is the difference between egcs and gcc?
egcs is different branch of gnu compilers (development was split in
mid-August 1997). More info on http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/
pgcc is egcs with additional optimisation for pentium & pentium-pro
More info on http://www.gcc.ml.org/
> Or glibc and libc?
glibc is "next libc". It's more poverfull, has more features, has better design
but still not so stable as libc :-(( I am NOT shure that you must upgrade from
libc to glibc now, but ahyway you could find FAQ about this on sunsite. May
be even better to use some glibc-based distribution (RedHat 5.0, Debian 2.0).
> Or I just have something mixed up (oranges to apples sort of
> thing)? I understand that they include some pentium optimizations.
> What about running on 486's? Any problems there? Thanks for
> everything.
May be you, may be no. I not have any 486 here to try...
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