[MPlayer-users] rant

[Steve Stavropoulos]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Arpi wrote:

> DO you know a method of detecting gcc 2.96 package release?

	rpm -q gcc
that gives for me:
	gcc-2.96-94
94 is the significant number. Anything above 85 will work fine. For less
than 85 I don't know. gcc-2.96-85 is a RECCOMENDED RedHat 7.x update.
-94 is the rawhide version.


> 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)

they relay on the Build number for versioning.