Re: GNU gcc upgrades

Jay Smith <jay-1c1HV3iw/rJWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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"To be fair...."

30 minutes x 5 million installations = 150 million minutes.  If a tech 
person has to deal with issue, that costs at least $60 per hour or a dollar 
a minute ... AT LEAST!  That is 150 million DOLLARS.

That is more than an annoyance!

Jay


John wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2003 at 23:15, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thus quoth Jacq, John on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:05:41AM +1000:
>>
>>>It is a bit of a pain for me as well, especially the dynamic libraries. The static ones are simple enough. It got worse when the new glibc2 game out as while I understood the numbering system prior to that, up to libc.5.x I suddenly wasn't so sure anymore. So I simply took the coward's way out, backed up everything personal as tar.gz files to zip disks and reinstalled a brand new Linux version. Then I reinstalled my personal stuff, which was fine except for compiling.
>>>
>>
>>This implies the problem is with glibc rather than gcc (not that this is
>>very helpful).
> 
> 
> I fail to make the distinction between the two, both seem to be closely 
> entertwined and both come from GNU.
> 
> To be fair, this is not a major nuisance, it never takes me a great deal of time 
> to fix (30 minutes usually), and since the resulting executables far outperform 
> anything I can make run under windows I'm not unhappy with gcc/glibc. It's 
> more like "Oh shit! Not again" once every 2 or 3 years :^) 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
>>Kind regards,
>>
>>
>>Daniel von Asmuth
>>
>>-- 
>>	wat heb je nodig bij een uitzichtloos leven? euthanasie?
>>	nee, windows.
>>	van microsoft?
>>	nee, van glas.
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