Re: Various things

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

> In a message of 08 Feb 98 Markus Illenseer wrote to All:
> 
>  >  You do not want to compile your own GCC. NetBSD 1.3 comes with a
>  > special  and working (!) distribution of gcc already. The package
> 
> Since gcc 2.8.0 is out, and there seem to be a lot of enancements in it, would
> it be safe to comp;ile it for NetBSD 1.3?
> 
> if not, there's any chance someone will make a "comp.tgz" out of it?

gcc 2.8.0 has been reported to be very unreliable. On a couple of
architectures, it can't even successfully compile itself ("stage3")
and pass the test.

Regards,
        -is