Hi Chris,
I just looked at Redhate and Suse to see what they are
doing as far as gcc goes.. they are using gcc 2.95.2.
What I think I'll try is to boot into suse.. compile
gcc 2.95.2 and then package it for slackware and see
what happens. The absence of the test suite sucks
indeed..
--- Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com> wrote:
> > I've been running into problems with gcc 2.95.2 as
> > well. KDE's control panel core dumps and a lot of
> the
> > other components in KDE crash.. not unusual. I
> think
> > it's a lot of 64-bit cleaness issues and also has
> to
> > do with what compiler gcc is compiled with. I'm
> > wondering if we compile gcc with the cc compile
> from
> > Compaq if that would clear some of the issues up.
> It's
> > a long shot and I have to find out what the
> licensing
> > is for their cc/c++ on alpha Linux.
>
> I don't like the idea of building gcc with the
> Compaq compilers. I'd
> perfer if we could just stay within our own
> toolchain. For now, I've
> reverted gcc 2.95.2 back into contrib, moved egcs
> back to the d series,
> and am in the process of getting back to work on the
> KDE packages.
>
> The C++ issues, coupled with the fact that gcc
> 2.95.2 cannot build glibc
> (check the glibc FAQ for more information) pretty
> much forces me to
> revert. It sucks because we'll be out of sync with
> the Intel version and
> because everyone will have to sync that stuff back
> out again.
>
> I'm just going to have to wait for a better compiler
> to come out, I guess.
> I can't even run the gcc testsuite to make sure that
> the compiler is valid
> because they have removed it over copyright
> problems. So for now, we're
> maintaining on egcs.
>
> > I may also be
> > close to finding out what to disable in the
> generic
> > kernel so that it works on my alpha. I'll keep you
> > up-to-date on that. As soon as I'm done with
> figuring
> > that out, I'll look into getting gcc working
> right. If
> > that does not work out, then egcs will have to be
> > compiler.
>
> Ah, good. Once you've got a kernel that boots on
> your machine, just send
> me the config file and I'll merge it on into the
> tree. Try to make as few
> changes as necissary, though.
>
> If you want to play with the gcc stuff more, go
> right ahead. I've thrown
> it back into /contrib so it's still around for
> playing with. You can keep
> both egcs and gcc installed at the same time, but
> whichever one you
> install last will be the default. Ideally, you
> would be able to get it to
> compile KDE 2.0 stuff.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place
> random string here')),"\n";
>
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