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Re: Upgrading glibc and egcs at the same time
- To: law@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: Upgrading glibc and egcs at the same time
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
- Date: 01 Jul 1999 00:33:20 +0200
- Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck@yamato.synopsys.com>, mwood@iupui.edu (Mark H. Wood), glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu, webmasters@www.gnu.org, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
- References: <26363.930778834@upchuck.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
>>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:
Jeff> In message <199906302058.NAA24163@yamato.synopsys.com>you write:
>> As I understood it, there were political reasons for this, relating to
>> egcs dependencies in glibc 2.1 (someone please correct me if I'm wrong),
Jeff> That was my understanding. It was considered unacceptable for the GNU C
Jeff> library to require a compiler that was not the official GCC.
With the release of glibc 2.1.1 everything is fine again since 2.1.1
works with gcc 2.8.1, egcs and gcc 2.95.
The problem with the glibc web pages is AFAIK just that nobody cares
to update them. I guess that volunteers are welcome.
Andreas
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