On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:45, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 03:33, Alex Bennee wrote:
> > 
> > Can't get the memtest tools to compile under Mandrake, failing to link
> > to the maths library for some reason (and the make needs to be run as
> > root which is bad).
> 
> Can't remember if this is true but if memtest is c++ then I've heard
> rumor that it is causing problems with some of the older programs that
> haven't been updated to gcc3.02's differences.  Witness the fact that
> mozilla is compiled under 2.96 for MDK.  That could be the trouble.

My bad, brain fart. I meant the badmem tools (which are required to
build a badmem enabled kernel). Memtest indead needs to be compiled with
gcc2.x which it is on Mandrake. I even added the badmem suggested patch
to it without any problems.

-- 
Alex Bennee
Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd
The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my
employer


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