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>From owner-abiword-user@abisource.com Wed Mar 14 08:29:45 2001
I am experimenting with Abiword 0.7.13 on Windows 95. No problems so far. I
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> Is there anyone out there using Abiword on a Windows machine? I do and
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Subject: Re: libgal.so.4 ATTENTION WITH RED HAT 7 gcc 2.96 compiler
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:27:07 -0500
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intend to install Linux as a second OS in the near future, and I want
Abiword to be a cross-platform word processer.
From: "Paul Filiault" <pdf1234@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Dan Stromberg" <strombrg@nis.acs.uci.edu>
Cc: "Bernard_REVET" <bmrevet@igr.fr>; "Kevin Vajk" <kvajk@ricochet.net>;
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Subject: Re: libgal.so.4 ATTENTION WITH RED HAT 7 gcc 2.96 compiler
have no
> major problems but would like to contact users that use it more heavily
that I.
>
> Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:40:58AM -0500, Bernard_REVET wrote:
> > > Dear all
> > > If it was only Gnome for which you are going to have trouble would be
fine.
> > > The worst are the compilers which come with Red Hat 7 even the
upgrade
> > > versions . Being so in a bleeding edge gcc 2.96 is just not stable
and should
> > > not be used if you do not want to be with nighmares while compiling .
> > > Just replace it with 2.95.2.1
> > > For example you can get it from
> > > ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gcc/releases/gcc-2.95.2.1/
> > >
> > > or wait for 3.0....
> > >
> > > Look at
> > > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
> > >
> > > for extra information
> >
> > Actually if you patch your 2.96 it's a better compiler than 2.95.1.
> >
> > Practically everything that fails to build with 2.96, fails to build
> > because the code wasn't standards conformant, and the older gcc's
> > passed nonconformant code. Typically you just have to define one or
> > two preprocessor symbols to bring back the heavily populated
> > namespaces ("overpopulated", according to the standards), and you're
> > ok, but there are other places where standards compliance was improved
> > as well.
> >
> > And of course if you just hate progress, you can always use the "kgcc"
> > that comes with redhat 7.
> >
> > > I mentioned this point to Red Hat but did not get any answer
> >
> > They're probably tired of hearing it. How do you respond to hoardes
> > of people insisting that an improvement isn't an improvement? I'd
> > probably consider ignoring it too. Perhaps I should have this time
> > (I'll know I should have if this turns into a battle).
> >
> > BTW, the mesa modes in xscreensaver run MUCH faster on redhat 7 than
> > they did on 6.2. I haven't figured out why yet. It could even be
> > because of the improvements in the compiler's output, but perhaps it's
> > more to do with using XFree86 4.x with an 3d video card.
> >
> > --
> > Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS
> >
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