Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?

2000-09-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 2.95.2 is actually fairly stable on powerpc. There will be 2.96 > snapshots available in the near future - mostly when I have a really > good reason to build them, or someone else does :) Another possible new compiler motivation to add to the chorus: 2.95.2 doesn't see

Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?

2000-09-07 Thread John R. MacPhail
Ok. I wasn't complaining, just wondering how you guys were handling this. Maybe it's just me who needs the upgrade, because of our monstrous C++ package. If I'd build deb packages myself, would anyone be interested? Yes, please. I'm on no large project, but I've just in the last co

Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?

2000-09-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
On Wednesday, 6 September 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > How do the rest of you handle this, or where do you update your gcc, > > gdb and other important stuff from? > > 2.95.2 is actually fairly stable on powerpc. There will be 2.96 > snapshots available in the near future - mostly when I

Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?

2000-09-06 Thread Cort Dougan
} > 2.95.2 is actually fairly stable on powerpc. There will be 2.96 The latest 2.4.0 has trouble with it. I had to add some workarounds for bugs in the code emitted for leaf functions.

Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?

2000-09-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
On Wednesday, 6 September 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz writes > 2.95.2 is actually fairly stable on powerpc. There will be 2.96 Duh. I got internal compiler errors, and in some cases, strange differences between LilyPond-ppc and LilyPond-i386 output. Much better than what we had two years ago, tho

Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?

2000-09-06 Thread christian mock
> 2.95.2 is actually fairly stable on powerpc. There will be 2.96 Well, it recently failed to compile postgresql-7.0.2 with -O2 -- the regression tests failed; using -O0 did help. I didn't file a bugreport because I didn't have the time to dig any deeper... ciao, cm. -- christian mock in

Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?

2000-09-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:26:43PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Hi List, > > Unstable has still the -- on powerpc -- rather buggy gcc-2.95.2 > and friends. > > Before, I used Franz's bleeding edge rpms from > > ftp://dev.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl > > (De-?!)alien-ising works, but with t

How to keep gcc and such up to date?

2000-09-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi List, Unstable has still the -- on powerpc -- rather buggy gcc-2.95.2 and friends. Before, I used Franz's bleeding edge rpms from ftp://dev.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl (De-?!)alien-ising works, but with the current tar (1.13) that overwrites symlinks, this makes a mess of the /usr/man, /usr