Re: 108 compile problems for alpha

Tom Vier (nester@sekurity.org)
Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:44:57 -0400 (EDT)

> > I'm not sure why RH went with egcs in 5.1 when Linus has stated publically
> > that there are problems with egcs. If gcc-2.8.1 was stable, why not stick
> > with it? Oh well...
>
> Uh, Red Hat 5.1 does not default to egcs. The default compiler is gcc
> 2.7.2.3. Slackware 3.5 made the mistake of using egcs by default.

that's partly try, for redhat 5.0, anyway. dunno about 5.1, but under
5.0, root doesn't have /usr/loca/bin in it's path and gcc 2.7.x is
/usr/bin/gcc, while egcs is /usr/local/bin/gcc.

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