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Re: keeping gcc 2.95 around
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Jul 8 23:53:50 2003
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:53:47 -0400
Message-Id: <200307090353.XAA17936@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: warlord@MIT.EDU
CC: alexp@MIT.EDU, gnu@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <sjmd6gkxxj9.fsf@kikki.mit.edu> (message from Derek Atkins on 08
Jul 2003 22:07:54 -0400)
>So, keeping gcc-2.9x around is probably not a reasonable long-term
>goal, but keeping it around for a year or so might be reasonable.
For Linux only, gcc296 is available under Athena 9.2 as part of the Red
Hat Linux 9 release. It's Red Hat's hacked version of gcc 2.95, and
depending on who you ask, it's either a usefully updated and supported
version of gcc 2.95 or a tool of the devil. But it's there.
