From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, aj@suse.de
Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <200107182020.f6IKKGJ30906@fillmore.constant.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01296.html

> Going to GCC 3.0 is IMO the right way.

I agree. I think private trees are a bad idea. If Red Hat can't use
gcc-3, I think a branch on the FSF tree is a good idea.

> Compatibility between distributions is important and I'd even like to
> see C++ specified in a newer revision of LSB (we didn't specify C++
> for LSB 1.0 because of these incompatibilities).

I'm willing to work on this. I know Uli and others have already done
some of this work, so please let me know how I can help. (offlist)

I'm also interested in working with you or whoever at SuSe to make
sure that the libstdc++ versions used are similar. 

best,
benjamin