Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 18:03:12 -0500

In message <199903181405.BAA03889@zipper.zip.com.au>, CaT writes:
+-----
| Horst von Brand wrote the following:
| > > > so, when will glibc 2.1 really be available and which "political issues
| "
| > > > have to be worked out (for more than a month now) ?
| >
| > AFAIU, the trouble is that it won't build with gcc-2.8.1
|
| As I basically said in a private mail: So what?
+--->8

The official FSF standard compiler is gcc 2.8.1.
The glibc-2.1 folks made it only build with egcs, *and* put derogatory
comments about gcc 2.8.1 in the source.

The FSF is not happy about this.

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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
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