On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:02:08PM -0500, Alexander Grekhov wrote:
Bill Nottingham wrote:
Gregory Gulik (greg@xxxxxxxxx) said:
I didn't see anyone ask this yet so here goes. Why are there both GCC 3.3.2 and GCC 3.2.3 in Fedora????
gcc-3.2.3 is for building the kernel.
Forgive my ignorance, but still -- why?
Among other things, GCC 3.3 removed the deprecated multi-line string literals extension from the preprocessor. This has been used heavily all over the kernel and although it has been cleaned in many places in 2.4.x kernels, it is still present in several places. 2.6.x kernels should build with GCC 3.3.x just fine.
Thanks for the explanation. Still I think it would be less confusing and more logical to release 2.4.x-based FC1 with GCC 3.2.x and move on to kernel 2.6.x and GCC 3.3.x in FC2.
Alexander
