[ale] RedHat 7.0

[Jeff Hubbs]

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that the compiler(s) *themselves* are broken -
the problems I see are mostly in the category of "fit and finish."  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John M Trostel [mailto:jtrostel at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 4:45 AM
> To: Jhubbs at niit.com
> Cc: John.Armsby at motorola.com; ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] RedHat 7.0
> 
> 
> ---Reply to mail from Jeff Hubbs about [ale] RedHat 7.0
> 
> Disclaimer: I don't have RH 7.0 and I don't think I'll get RH 7.0
> 
> But.... RH does included in the distro a compiler which will 
> compile the
> kernel source.  They have (re)named it kgcc (I think) - to indicated
> k(ernel)gcc.  They also bundled an experimental gcc as the main(?) gcc
> invoked by a simple gcc call.  I quess they figure if you are 
> going to be
> recompiling the kernel, you should be aware enough to read the release
> notes and to make calls to the appropriate compiler.
> 
> Neither of the compilers they shipped is broken.  The simple
> implementation of the compiler in rerolling your kernel is 
> broken though.
> From the flack I have been reading about, that may have been 
> a bad move by
> them. 
> 
> >> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:10:50AM -0400, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
> >> > You can compile a kernel with RH 7.0, but you have to 
> use an older
> >> > version of gcc. Look for something like: kgcc or kcc or 
> read the RH
> >> > 7.0 release notes.
> > 
> > I'm kind of pushing away from the whole Red Hat strand 
> because of things
> > like this.  Any Linux distro ought to have everything - and I mean
> > EVERYTHING - required to compile all the source code.  I 
> mean, this is such
> > a basic part of working with Linux; how can someone just 
> ship a distro with
> > something like this broken??  I know a Linux distro is a 
> very complex thing,
> > but doesn't anyone at Red Hat actually take a preproduction 
> CD and do basic
> > stuff like recompile the supplied kernel from the supplied source?  
> > 
> > I'm no huge fan of Mandrake, but I hate to think that part 
> of Mandrake's
> > role is to put out a more QAed version of Red Hat.
> 
> ---End reply
> -- 
> John M. Trostel
> Linux OS Engineer
> Connex
> jtrostel at connex.com
> 
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