Re: Potato and egcs
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:13:47PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: First, don't complain. One of the listed goals for potato on debian-devel (you do read that, don't you? potato is a DEVELOPERS RELEASE) I was under the impression that there are illegal constructs in 2.0 that GCC likes but EGCS hates, and that these problems were fixed in the 2.1 development tree some time ago. The whole GCC/EGCS thing is mostly political, IMHO, as many agree that EGCS is the superior compiler. There was a big thread on -devel discussing whether glibc2.1 was pulled because it doesn't compile with GCC 2.8. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Potato and egcs
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 12:18:50AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: Ok, whose big idea was it not to provide a real gcc in potato? Maybe it is me but I couldn't find one. I did an auto-upgrade and broke my ability to compile 2.0.27-pre kernels cleanly. I don't mind being offered egcs but I would LIKE the chance to stay with gcc. Forcing egcs is fine IF debian is going to produce patched versions of all the latest kernels so they will work. I happen to need 2.0.37 (because it has the Initio support I need, it is more up to date than 2.2.5). Try to compile it with potato and you get a couple of pages of bitching and complaining about egcs and the compile dies. And no, I am probably NOT going to limit myself to building only from Debian approved source trees. George Bonser Support The THING -- http://shorelink.com/~grep/THING.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null First, don't complain. One of the listed goals for potato on debian-devel (you do read that, don't you? potato is a DEVELOPERS RELEASE) is to use EGCS for compilation. Use Slink if you can't handle occasional system breaks. Also, don't start blaming people left and right. You are the one who chose to upgrade your GCC. Just use the GCC from Slink. I'm still using it because I have some apps that don't cope well with glibc2.1. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Potato and egcs
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 00:18:50 -0800, George Bonser wrote: Ok, whose big idea was it not to provide a real gcc in potato? Fully switching to EGCS has been planned for potato for quite some time now. Maybe it is me but I couldn't find one. There isn't one, yet. We're working on building one from the gcc27 source package. I did an auto-upgrade and broke my ability to compile 2.0.27-pre kernels cleanly. Welcome to unstable. I don't mind being offered egcs but I would LIKE the chance to stay with gcc. Forcing egcs is fine IF debian is going to produce patched versions of all the latest kernels so they will work. 2.2.x is the latest kernel. I happen to need 2.0.37 (because it has the Initio support I need, it is more up to date than 2.2.5). It can't be that difficult to update 2.2.5's from it. Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: Potato and egcs
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 03:11:50 -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: 2.2.x is the latest kernel. But 2.0.37 has newer drivers than Linus' 2.2 releases ... maybe I should be using the ac stuff? At the moment, I trust Alan's patches more than Linus' releases (though I did a grep in 2.2.5-ac3 for initio, and didn't find an update (relative to 2.2.5)). 2.2.5 won't build with the egcs in potato either. For a particular configuration perhaps. I've had no problems compiling 2.2.X(-acY) kernels for my systems. 2.2.5 is the latest kernel but 2.0.37 has the latest hardware support. You may want to mail Alan privately to ask him to include the updated drivers you're concerned about. (Or even better, provide him with a patch). Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
