[ale] Moving Right Along..

[Dave Brooks]

The egcs people can't seriously blame the libraries, can they?  I mean come
on -- those kernels have been compiling fine under gcc with libc5.x.x OR
glibc2 for months now...

-Dave

-----Original Message-----
 From: Jeremy T. Bouse <undrgrid at undergrid.net>
To: Dave[tm] <spork at trusted.net>
Cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu <ale at cc.gatech.edu>
Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Moving Right Along..


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>On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Dave[tm] wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 01:00:31 -0400
>> From: "Dave[tm]" <spork at trusted.net>
>> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
>> Subject: [ale] Moving Right Along..
>>
>> Thanks to all those who offered help on my printer problem -- I'll
probably
>> be throwing up a few more questions regarding that pretty soon.  But as
for
>> now...
>>
>> I installed Slackware 3.5 yesterday, and I have a few problems to see if
>> anyone else has encountered.  1)  Slack 3.5 uses egcs -1.0.3 as opposed
to
>> gcc 2.8.1.  When I tried to recompile the kernel, I noticed the stdout of
>> the "make zImage -j" looked like egcs was running itself with a '-W' flag
by
>> default.  Is that normal?  Regarding the same thing - egcs dosent seem to
>> compile 2.0.34 (or 2.0.35 for that matter) modules all the way through.
It
>> compiles all my net drivers, but bombs on sound (which is a very -normal-
>> sound configuration, just your average SB Clone.  Gcc used to handle this
>> flawlessly).  Any clues?
>>
> This has been a noted problem on the egcs mailing list for the
>past several months with people sayin there are problems with Linux kernel
>compiles using egcs and the egcs coding team has told Linus that it is due
>to the libraries. So I guess until everyone finally figures out which
>libraries to use and which not to this is going to be the case. I've
>always noted Slackware to also be way behind the times when it came to any
>major issue... especially security patches/fixes...
> Jeremy T. Bouse
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>
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