Re: EMC and Red Hat 8.0

["ERIC KELLER" <eekeller-at-psu.edu>]

I've been silent on this gcc-3.2 issue for a while only because my memory is
weak, and I don't always believe what I remember.  Anyway, there was a
discussion about this subject on the RTAI mailing list just recently.  Here is
what the RTAI head cheese Paolo Mantegazza says about the subject:

>From mantegazza-at-aero.polimi.it  Fri Nov 15 14:11:28 2002
From: mantegazza-at-aero.polimi.it (Paolo Mantegazza)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:11:28 +0100
Subject: Future plans ?
References: <C3A7A05290BCD611865100508B9498B729D2A9-at-erlh902a.med.siemens.de>
Message-ID: <3DD50090.C0B738C5-at-aero.polimi.it>

"Back Michael (extern)" wrote:
> 
> Hi RTAI-List,
> some questions about the future of RATI:
> 
> - Which version will be gcc3.2 conform ?

What in the CVS fully supports gcc-3.2 already. 

> - Is there a plan about 64-Bit-RTAI archs like Itanium/Hammer or Alpha ?

At DIAPM Alpha is dead, the rest might be possible. Recall RTAI is free
volunteer work, nothing forbids offering money_machine for a specific
_OPEN_ port ;-).

> - Whats the roadmap for the next Version 24.1.11 ?

The next version plan has already been announced, i.e. ADEOS based RTAI
(for i386 at least).

Paolo.



On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 03:26:49, John Sheahan wrote:

> 
> I've been running rh8 for a while now, 
> (not on emc) and it works better than any older 
> releases.
> 
> whats the issue with gcc 2.96? subversions before 53 were a worry - but
> that was fixed ages back.
> 
> autoconf 1.6 had been my biggest issue - but 1.5 was on the 
> disks too.
> john
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:58:15PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> 
> > kernel and will not build EMC. An additional compiler is included for 
> > backward compatability with RH7.x, but this is the much derided gcc-2.96. 
> > Unlike earlier Red Hat releases, there is no egcs, so unless you want to 
> > build your own compiler from gcc-2.95 sources, there is little chance of 
> > installing EMC on RH 8.0.
> > 
> > Regards, Paul.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
>