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Subject: Re: Help With GCC!!!
To: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:59:02 +0200 (MET DST)
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James Raynard writes:
>
>>> I would've just grabbed 2.7.2, but I remember reading somewhere that
>>> FreeBSD hasn't jumped to that version yet because of a bunch of bugs and
>>> other problems.
>>
>> The problems with 2.7.2 are exaggerated.
>
> Apparently it needs substantial patching to compile the kernel
> correctly.
>
>> I'm using it for everything.
>
> Perhaps you have been lucky :-)

No, I've been unlucky.  You're right: there are problems, they just
didn't bite me until yesterday.

Greg