Hi Henry,

Thanks for the info.

>>Now what had prompted me to update in the firs place? I would like to
>>install g77 and that requires gcc 2.7.2.2. The -current snapshot has
>>version 2.7.2; the newer release might have come with the newer gcc.
>>Unfortunately, it did not.
>Well I have two answers to this one:  The first answer is that I think
>there are very few code lines that were changed between 2.7.2 and 2.7.2.2
>so I think g77 should still install over it with no problem.  (I haven't
>tried.)

The g77 readme states very explicitly that it needs 2.7.2.2; the MkLinux
version even comes with its own gcc, because the MkLinux team is *only*
up to 2.7.2.1. I have not checked out the exact differences, but the
"WILL NOT WORK!" sort of impressed me.

>The second answer is that the justification for the release of 2.7.2.1
>after the 2.7.x chain was supposedly frozen was a fairly nasty
>code-generation bug in the 68000 port of gcc.
>I haven't followed the NetBSD discussions of 2.7.2 vice 2.7.2.2, but I
>would think that if you are into "stable, patched" releases like NetBSD
>1.2.1 then you would also want gcc 2.7.2.2.  YMMV.

Well, my Quadra 650 is happy only with kernels like madhatter#37, so I
have to be rather -current.

Anybody on the list have a summary of the "2.7.2 vs 2.7.2.2" discussion,
or a pointer to something useful? (I'd rather not download and check the
complete mailing list archive :-)

Best wishes,

          Nico

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