Hi Ricardo
Mandrake distros are in effect a re-badged RedHat distro - If RH have a problem, so will Mandrake. I too have been over the bleeding edge with gcc-2.96 (dare not play with gcc-3.0 yet). To be sure of a stable compile, use kgcc instead. It is either found in the kgcc or compat-egcs package. Once it is installed, either modify your make files or replace gcc with a symlink to kgcc. You may also need to do the same thing with c++ and compat-egcs++.
One more note - The kernel headers are also installed directly under /usr/include/linux so if you try to compile a different kernel, you may hit problems.
Regards, Paul.
On Monday 24 September 2001 11:26 am, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Here's a little warning for anyone wishing to try Mandrake 8.0:- EVERY source I've compiled has failed. Sometimes rpms work, sometimes they don't (even though they are MDK rpm's).
I thought I was just being inept(fairly likey really), but why EVERY source? I looked over various BBS's and realised that I was not the only one... a LOT of people were having this problem. Seems that MDK, in an effort to be cutting edge, has sacrificed reliability and used a less stable version of gcc. grrr.