Why two GCCs in FC1??

[Alexander Grekhov]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:02:08PM -0500, Alexander Grekhov wrote:
> 
>>Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>
>>>Gregory Gulik (greg at gulik.org) said: 
>>>
>>>
>>>>I didn't see anyone ask this yet so here goes.  Why are there both GCC 
>>>>3.3.2 and GCC 3.2.3 in Fedora????
>>>
>>>
>>>gcc-3.2.3 is for building the kernel.
>>
>>Forgive my ignorance, but still -- why?
> 
> 
> Among other things, GCC 3.3 removed the deprecated multi-line string
> literals extension from the preprocessor.
> This has been used heavily all over the kernel and although it has
> been cleaned in many places in 2.4.x kernels, it is still present
> in several places.
> 2.6.x kernels should build with GCC 3.3.x just fine.

Thanks for the explanation. Still I think it would be less confusing and 
more logical to release 2.4.x-based FC1 with GCC 3.2.x and move on to 
kernel 2.6.x and GCC 3.3.x in FC2.

Alexander