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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:39:48 +0300
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Subject: Re: v2.03: wrapping up
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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.