----- Original Message ----- From: "xander" <xwiggen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list at redhat.com> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:50 AM Subject: Re: difference of redhat 6.2 and 7.0 | > | > Hi, | > In addition to the kernel headers issue you mention, RedHat also | > APPEARS to have shipped gcc 2.96 with Redhat 7.0. The 2.96 version of GCC | > was NOT meant for public consumption, and was supposed to be some kind of | > beta which was only to be used/tested by Redhat themselves. As a result | > of RedHat releasing 2.96, GNU decided that there new version of GCC (when | > it is ready to be released) will be called 2.97. I have not specifically | > asked RedHat nor GNU about this first hand, so if anyone would like to | > correct me please feel free... The bottom line is that some things with | > GCC seem to be broken. I am not sure whether there is a patch yet or some | > other meccanism to role back to GCC 2.96. | > | > There is also some bug in Redhat 7.0 which causes a crash every two | > weeks or so - some kind of memory leak. I am not sure exactly where the | > memory leak is - I think there is already an RPM update for it though. | | RedHat 7.0 is a bit flaky indeed. 2.2.x kernel sources don't compile | properly. Better wait till 7.1 is out and run 6.2 in the meantime. | | Regards, | xander van wiggen | | | | | _______________________________________________ | Blinux-list mailing list | Blinux-list at redhat.com | https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
