OSEC

Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com
 
Subject: Re: postfix crashes ...
From: brian moore (bemrom.org)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 18:50:38 CDT

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:21:50AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> brian moore <bemrom.org> writes:
>
> > Could be, or a few other things.... Did he have the naughty version of
> > gcc (2.96) on his system, with the related libraries?
>
> There is no gcc-2.96. See http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html

There sort of -is- such a thing, and why I called it the 'naughty'
version.

Since RH included a package named 'gcc-2.96', I would say that there
-is- such a thing in existence, but that its usage (and expecting it
to work) would not be a wise thing, especially when the developers say,
basically, "wow, you got it to compile something? that's a bug since
it's not even supposed to get that far"

See http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/rhl7_standard.html,
which states:
   Updated development toolchain with gcc 2.96, gdb 5.0, glibc 2.2

Note that glibc2.2 isn't a production series either (opposite of the
Linux kernel, glibc uses odd minor numbers for release and evens for
development), so anyone trusting such a system should contact RH for
support. Filling a system with devware is fun somedays, but with things
like gcc and glibc, it's seriously asking for trouble.