Russell Whitaker wrote:
Just as well. All the distrubutions listed on www.distrowatch.com have some variation of gcc-2.9 something as the default compiler. On the Slackware site, gcc-3.0.2 is included in the current tree "for testing purposes only". The latest glibc, 2.2.4, says you can't use gcc-3 to compile it. (If you override it you get a "not supported" message). So if GPC were included today you'd be right in the middle of GCC vs GCC problems.
I think we'll always be in such problems, anyway. ;-) However, the worst that can really happen to someone who wants to install it, would be having to download a GCC source tarball (a little less than 10 MB for the core version IIRC) and to install two more binaries (maybe 4 MB with debug info). Quite frankly, it's not *that* much nowadays (and the GCC version will have to be updated far less than once a year, most likely also in the future) ...
Frank