Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> tetexlive-bin fails to build on Alpha: >> > [...] >> The reason is an obscure bug in gcc that only triggers when accessing >> exactly the 32767th element of a character array. Since I don't know >> how fix it in gcc and nobody else seems to be working on that, I >> suggest you apply the following workaround: > > I think we'll do that. Do you know which versions of gcc show that bug?
good: 3.3, 3.4, 4.0 bad: 4.1, 4.2 > Upstream also provides binaries for Linux on alpha, so obviously they > didn't encounter it. Maybe they used one of the good versions, or compiled with -mcpu=ev56 or higher. -- Falk