Re: ..gcc-3.x.y & RH7.z, was: [Plib-users] Fwd: Re: flightgear problem

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>
> ..how about Red Hat 7.z/Rawhide and gcc 3.x.y?   TEG?
> Will gcc version 3 onwards fix the Red Hat 7.z "gcc-2.96/7" problem?

Well, it's possible that there will be problems with GCC 3.0 - and I've
had mixed reports (at least one person said that they had weird problems
and two people said that it "just worked" except for a couple of places
where I had #include'd the wrong header files for some standard functions
and had been "getting away with it".  eg <sys/time.h> and <time.h>)

So whether 3.0 will be good or not - I don't know.  I generally avoid
"x.0.0" releases - I don't have the energy to chase compiler problems
and I'd rather a few hundred thousand other people found the hard problems
before I give them a whirl.

However, that misses the point.  2.96/7 were never actually released
by the GCC team - so it's unreasonable to email them saying "you screwed
up Mesa - please fix it"...however, if 3.0 screws up Mesa then it's
perfectly reasonable (even desirable) to enter into a dialog with the
Mesa team and the GCC team to try to figure out what's going on.

So if you have problems with 2.96/7, you shouldn't complain to PLIB
or Mesa or even the GCC team because the fault doesn't lie with any
of those groups.  That only leaves RedHat's customer support.
 
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