Re: ia32 compatibility and gcc-3.0

[David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:03:56 -0400, Rick Haines <rick@kuroyi.net> said:

  Rick> Actually, I was referring to ia64 builds that I've been
  Rick> compiling.  Nothing ever comes up when I run it.  I'm
  Rick> recompiling with gcc/g++ 3.0 now.  I've never messed with
  Rick> anything so large and am welcome to suggestions.  I haven't
  Rick> done a debug build yet.

Are you using the patches & instructions that I sent to the Progeny
folks?  That should yield a working ia64 mozilla.

  Rick> ia32 versions don't run but I guess you've found the problem
  Rick> there.

Yes, the primary problem was that recent versions of libc rely on 2.4
kernel features and the ia32 subsystem didn't implement those
features.

	--david