On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > given that FC3 ships with a preview gcc4, should it be considered a > bug that glibc-2.3.3 can't be configured with that compiler? the > relevant excerpt from glibc-2.3.3/configure: > > ac_prog_version=`$CC -v 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*version > \([egcygnustpi-]*[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'` > case $ac_prog_version in > '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;; > 3.[2-9]*) > ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;; > *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;; > > esac > > > in short, if it ain't 3.2.x -> 3.9.x, glibc configure fails. bug? > feature? safeguard? never mind, just checked and it's been fixed in glibc CVS. rday
