[MPlayer-users] rant

[Guillaume Serre]

Le Lundi 8 Octobre 2001 17:10, vous avez écrit :
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> Maybe mdk 8.1 contains newer (with (some) bugs fixed) gcc 2.96.
> DO you know a method of detecting gcc 2.96 package release?
> Old versions come in 8.0 and redhat 7.x are buggy. And we can't make
> the difference (neither test which works and which no) as all gcc reports
> 2.96. Isn't the version number used by redhat people? It should be gcc
> 2.96.x and x is the release (so we can change the check to allow for
> example 2.96.85 but don't allow 2.96.81)
>

Mandrake 8.1 gcc says (with -v):

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)