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Bug#196621: xserver-xfree86 / xlibs 4.2.1-7 issue - workaround



On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 05:16:58PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> [1] People who read my changelogs might have noticed the following:
> 
>       + GCC 3.3 appears to produce bad code for PowerPC at the optimization
>         level required by Debian Policy (the X server cannot validate
>         XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 keys); when building on PowerPC, set
>         DefaultGcc2OptimizeOpt to -O instead of -O2
> 
> I don't own an i386 machine, so I did not know that this bug affected
> that architecture as well.  GCC 3.3 has many regressions, though --
> XFree86 4.2.1-7 will not even build with that compiler on arm, mips,
> mipsel, and possibly m68k (reason for the latter's build failure is not
> nailed down yet, it could be lack of disk space masquerading as
> something more subtle).

I'll do a test build of trunk/ on i386 in about four days (when exams
are over), and see if that fixes it.

-- 
Daniel Stone 	     <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au>             <dstone@kde.org>
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