Re: gEDA: SPICE GUI

[MSWaters <M.Waters@bom.gov.au>]

Joshua,

The reasons to upgrade my laptop to RH9 have been mounting. I've been
putting it off because of the inevitable setup / debug effort it will require. 
l'll do it as soon as a convenient opportunity arises.

Mike

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 23:13, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:14:55PM +1000, MSWaters wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am doing the development on a PII 366 laptop running Redhat 7.3 which
> > has gcc v2.96 (as Evan guessed). This allows me to do the development
> > on the train to and from work. The down side is that I must use older
> > versions of Linux because of the laptop's limited supply of CPU cycles.
>
> First, I'm running RH9 on a Celeron machine with less oomph, and it
> seems to work better than 7.3 on equivelent software.
>
> Second, even if you choose not to update your linux distribution, it
> would be worth updating to a 3.x compiler.  You may be different, but
> redhats bastard 2.96 caused me no end of pain.  I put 3.2 on my RH7.3
> machine at work, and it works just fine, and is far superior to what 7.3
> came with.
>
> I even managed to find an RPM of 3.2 for 7.3 rather than having to
> install from source.
>
> Now, I could see arguements for continueing to use 2.95, but in my
> opinion, there is absolutely no good reason to use 2.96.