Re: 686 distro. [Was: What about Mandrake?]

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Gustav Schaffter wrote:

> I know that Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been working on
> this task before. He has defined a number of packages that had
> compilation problems and published the list on a page at the redhat
> site. Unfortunately, I've lost the URL for his page. Bernhard? Do you
> read this? Could you please provide us with your insights in this?

There are no compilation problems if you stick with egcs, but the i686
optimizations in egcs suck.
If you want real optimizations, you should use gcc 2.95.2 (or a 2.96 CVS
snapshot... 2.96 has much better optimizations, but will
(currently) generate broken code. 2.95.2 is stable.). - unfortunately,
some bad code doesn't compile with gcc 2.95.2. In most cases, the patches
are trivial though - I've put the ones I've built up at
http://people.redhat.com/bero/gcc295.

LLaP
bero

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