Re: misshaps on RedHat and Slackware

[Paul E Johnson]

Alex Lancaster wrote:
 The newest one requires a version of
> PJ> gcc3.0.1 I describe.
>
> One question I do have to Paul who has built recent snapshots on CVS,
> is whether it's 100% necessary to have a GCC > 3.0 to build it?
At approximately Swarm Version 2.1.94, it became necessary to use 
gcc-3.x. I don't recall the reason.

>  Which change, exactly, was made that meant that Swarm needed
> at least 3.0?

> Just FYI, the "blt" package was removed from Red Hat Linux 8.0, so we
> we/you may need to take the spec file for the last 7.3 version of blt,
> and rebuild it for Red Hat 8.0 when you get up to installing 8.0.  We
> would then have to undertake distributing the RPM for BLT from then
> on. :-(
>
> ...unless we can convince the good folks at freshrpms.net (or
> somesuch) to include it in their fine collection of clean custom RPMs.
>
> A.
They also removed jikes.  And I've been the to blt site to try to grab 
their source and it won't give it. I hope that is not a permanent condition.


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