Re: Working compiler?
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:48:33PM -0500, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
>
> On 9 Nov 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
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> > Also, a PowerPC person informs me that there are much more recent
> > versions of egcs than we have here and that we ought to investigate
> > them. Hmm.
>
> Yes, we should. So far, I have been unable to find time to package up a
> bleeding-edge snapshot, although the PPC people may have a source for such
> since they require the newer snapshots to build packages. Supposedly,
> most of our problems have been solved about a month ago or so, but
> apparently weren't incorporated into the 1_1 prerelease tree that was just
> uploaded to master to replace the current egcs. I'm testing it again
> against jade, fyi, just in case....
The thing to do, if you can find the time, is to locate a particular
patch or set of patches that fixed an important problem; then tell
egcs-bugs@cygnus.com, and they have good odds of being backported to
the 1.1.1 prerelease branch.
Dan
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