Yup.
This and other lists have hosted a good deal of screaming back and forth
to the effect that "It is broken!"/"No it's not!" ; "Red Hat sucks!"/"No
they do not!" and so forth... Conspicuously missing is any substantiated
report of problems caused by any of the alleged Huge Towering Bugs in
7.0.
I've been running 7.0 at home and at work since before it was on store
shelves. I hand-roll all of my kernels and a fair number of userland
packages, so I know that the compilers work.
According to at least one Red Hat person, the substance of the "GCC is
b0rken" complaints is that due to changes between versions, object code
compiled from C++ source with RH7's gcc cannot link against object files
compiled with past or future versions of gcc, BUT this has been true of
every "released" version of gcc for quite some time and won't be
completely cleared up until 3.0 comes out, so anybody who claims that
RH7 is broken should also be saying the same things about every Red Hat
since about 6.0 and several other distros besides.
Or something like that, give or take a detail or two; at any rate all
the screaming about the distribution release being fundamentally flawed
appears to be groundless. Apply the errata.
-m
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jacob Killian wrote:
>
> > Is RH 7.0 ready for production?
>
> Yes. We have it in production use ourselves.
>
> > I've read about a buggy and unofficial gcc on
> > slashdot, and was curious as to what the folks on this list have to say about
> > it.
>
> Inofficial, yes.
> Buggy, not if you install the errata. At least not more so than gcc 2.95.2
> or egcs 1.1.2.
>
> Some people think gcc is buggy because it refuses to compile broken code
> that older versions accepted - this is a feature, not a bug.
>
> LLaP
> bero
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