Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/04/26/13:40:13
On 26 Apr 99, at 16:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
>
> > Slackware-3.6 - egcs-1.0.3
> > Slackware-4.0 beta2 - egcs-1.1.2
> > Suse-6.0 - even worse - egcs snapshot from January
> > RedHat-5.2 - egcs-1.0.3
> > Debian-2.1 - egcs-1.1
>
> I know; that's why I asked the question. Cygwin and Mingw32 also use
> EGCS, AFAIK. It seems that GCC 2.8.1 is all but dead and not actively
> maintained anymore. I think we need to decide whether we switch to EGCS,
> and if so, begin to use primarily it for everything, including compiling
> the binaries uploaded to SimTel.NET.
>
> Does EGCS require to rebuild libc.a with it, or the stock distribution is
> good enough?
I think it's not required for C sources (such as djdev20X.zip). At least I never
met problems with C code when I mixed object files or libraries compiled by
different compiler versions. But it's not so with C++.
> > They usually have also gcc-2.7.2.3 binary (C only)
> Which reminds me to ask: how many people here still use GCC 2.7.x for
> DJGPP-related work?
I don't know. But main reason why Linux distributions had old gcc-2.7.2.3 was
that it was needed for Linux kernels 2.0.X.
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