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Re: Bug#442040: coreutils: FTBFS on PPC in seq test suite



On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:14:34PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:

> Ok, can anyone test what happens with gcc 4.1? (I kinda suspect some 
> kind of wacky code generation bug on ppc, because it works fine on alpha 
> amd64 hppa i386 ia64 mipsel sparc, and seq just doesn't do anything 
> particularly complicated.)

Ran a couple of quick compile tests, gcc-4.0 works gcc-4.1 and gcc-4.2
fail.  Haven't had time to track down what the difference in the
generated code is though.

In the short term, can the build famr be forced to use gcc-4.0 ?

Yours Tony

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