Re: gcc upgrade

[SL Baur <steve@example.com>]

Christopher SEKIYA <wileyc@example.com> writes in tlug@example.com:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:53:09PM +0900, SL Baur wrote:
>> If you're going to be playing around with glibc 2.2+ (highly
>> recommended), use gcc 2.95.2.1.

> ... which, I note with interest, is not available either on ftp.gnu.org
> nor sourceware.cygnus.com.

I thought the sourceware address had gone away.

It's on the GCC mirror where I do my shopping.
  ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com:/pub/sourceware/gcc/releases/gcc-2.95.2.1/


> Not an official release?  That appended .1 reminds me strongly of
> hjl's versioning convention, which is reason enough to stay far away
> from this particular compiler ...

It's 2.95.2 with the libio patch in the glibc FAQ applied to it.  You
can't build gcc 2.95.2 (or any earlier version of gcc) without patching
libio.  gcc-2.95.3-prerelease has a lot of new bugs in it and the
2.96/2.97 series are a total disaster.

Anyway, whatever.