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#1 2006-05-05 13:15:05
- EAD
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Why doesnt arch contain the new GCC and glibc
Hii, GCC 4.1 is out there for a very long time, and include many new optimize things like static vars and so on, why isnt it in the ARCH base any way?
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#2 2006-05-05 13:56:16
- jaboua
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Re: Why doesnt arch contain the new GCC and glibc
EAD wrote:
Hii, GCC 4.1 is out there for a very long time, and include many new optimize things like static vars and so on, why isnt it in the ARCH base any way?
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AFAIK because when it's included, everything will have to be rebuilt with the new GCC - so the devs wanted to make a release before doing that.
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#3 2006-05-05 14:17:47
- myst
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Re: Why doesnt arch contain the new GCC and glibc
+ glibc 2.4 work only under 2.6 kernel
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#4 2006-05-05 14:38:18
- Moo-Crumpus
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Re: Why doesnt arch contain the new GCC and glibc
cause you don't use abs 
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#5 2006-05-05 15:00:36
- iphitus
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Re: Why doesnt arch contain the new GCC and glibc
because someone here doesnt know how to use the forum search link.
set this as your homepage: http://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php
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