Pierre Ossman wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 15:42:23 +0100
Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The latest GCC in Fedora rawhide contains some serious bug (or provokes a
latent one in the kernel) that makes every kernel built unbootable. It just
locks up halfway through the init. Kernels that previously worked fine all now
experience the same symptom. Even RH's own kernels exhibit this. The kernel
built Nov 24th works, Nov 26th doesn't. gcc was updated 26th, 14 hours earlier.
Digging a bit further, it is indeed the high-res stuff (the first missing
message) that hangs. If I hard code the kernel to just be non-high-res capable,
it boots, but time keeping is horribly broken.
Anyway, hopefully this means I'll soon have the object file that gets
miscompiled. Jakub also pointed me to an older gcc RPM so that I can produce an
object file with that as well and see what differs.
If you are referring to the "compat" RPMs, be aware that they use the
current headers, which is a good or bad thing depending on what you want
to do. If you want to build old software, you get to keep a down-rev
virtual machine to do it right :-(
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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