RE: upgrade time?

[Stumpo VIII, Cody (C.M.)]

OK, gcc 2.96 bad.  

If I install the latest version of all those other packages I mentioned,
will those be problematic?

I can keep my current gcc, which is from package egcs-1.1.2-12, (this is
maybe 2.91.66?) or I could upgrade gcc maybe only to some version you
recommend, like 2.95.2? 

Is it necessary to install Swarm-2.1.1 also, or is the difference between
2.1 and 2.1.1 purely a windows thing, as I seem to recall?


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>>>>> "CS" == Stumpo VIII, Cody (C M ) <address@hidden> writes:

CS> What exactly were the "issues" with gcc 2.96 again? 

<Rant>
First and foremost, that Redhat released a development version
of the compiler.  The GCC steering committee has a specific list of
release criteria for GCC 3.0 and many of the items have not been achieved.
So not only is what Redhat released from a source tree in flux, but it
also has more than a dozen custom patches applied.  Boggle.

If Redhat was so eager to release a `better' compiler, you'd think that
since they now *own* Cygnus (the group that does much of the work on
the compiler), that they could hire more engineers and tell them what 
priorities they should have.
</Rant>

CS> I notice this pretty new CD of RedHat 7 just laying around the
CS> office, and wonder if it will screw anything up? 

I think we can pretty much promise you that it will screw Swarm
(binaries or new source builds) in some obvious or subtle way.

But if you're brave, Paul Johnson beat on this quite a while, and the
result is this:

  http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7

I haven't personally run Redhat 7, but I did grab their SRPMS and
got something a similar environment working on Debian.  

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