Re: Why Gnome RPMS need to work with RH 5.2

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Steve Homer <shomer@fmco.com> writes:

> I think that the problem of incompatible binaries from gcc & egcs is
> beginning to get a little bit silly. Does anyone know the situation relating
> to merging the egcs modifications back into the gcc source tree? Two
> compilers on the same platform which are generally called with the same name
> (gcc being a symlink against egcs on egcs installed machines) is bound to
> cause confusion.
> 
> Are the gcc people going to release a merged source tree at any stage in our
> future??

Actually, there is no incompatibility between egcs and the
current gcc-2.8.x as far as I know.

The difficulty is between egcs and the older gcc-2.7.x.x 
(the one that everybody who isn't using egcs uses...)

Regards,
                                        Owen