Once again, I meant to send my reply to the list originally... Eric Blake wrote: > > Brian Jones wrote: > > > > I had to share my pain so I hope someone else finds this funny. > > Tonight I updated to Red Hat 7.2 and afterwards applied the necessary > > updates as noted by Red Hat. Then I created RPMs of the newest > > libtool, automake, and autoconf and installed those. After twiddling > > with the various files like updating ltmain.sh and adding depcomp > > turns out that the Jikes I now have seg faults building our > > source... so I'm going to sleep. I'll install gcc 3.0.2 soon (in a > > standalone fashion away from my current gcc) and presumably won't have > > to deal with the Jikes problem. Hopefully Eric Blake can shed some > > light on this and offer a suggestion for what Jikes to use. > > Which version of jikes does RedHat 7.2 ship with? 1.15 has some known > segfaults when compiling nested classes in a static context, which > escaped through the release process. The patch that caused the problems > has since been reverted from CVS, if you are willing to try > bleeding-edge versions. Or, if you prefer a specific time, the > ChangeLog shows that the regression was fixed on Oct 15; and I can > verify that the Jikes CVS tree was stable and successfully compiled > classpath on Oct 18. > > Otherwise, all I can say is stick to 1.14; although I haven't tried that > version on classpath myself, it does not have the blatant problem with > nested classes. The sad part is that I was release manager for 1.15 > back in September, but was not compiling Classpath at the time, or that > regression might not have slipped through! > > :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/cvs/jikes (password anoncvs, > module jikes) > > I feel your pain (sorry that I'm partly to blame). > > > > > Brian > -- This signature intentionally left boring.
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