Re: Updates on RedHat 7.1/mips

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>]

Em Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:11:46PM -0700, H . J . Lu escreveu:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:09:00PM -0700, Ilya Volynets wrote:
> > 
> > I was working on it a while ago, and here are few pointers:
> > Some tools have to be run natively (i.e. xkbcomp), but also need to
> > be installed on target. I din't find a rule that does both. I think new
> > rule is needed.
> 
> I am aware of those. I want to delay it as much as I can.

recent messages to the XFree86 mailing lists has the recipe to x-compile
XFree86, IIRC Keith Packard did the work
 
> > 
> > gcc-3.0 crashes when compiling some parts of Xserver and Xlib,
> > with very obscure bug. Minimal test case I came up with is
> > ~45(!) lines long. Keith filed report to gcc team on my behalf,
> > but there seems to be no responce. I do not know if your
> > gcc has same problem, but someone mentioned similar problem
> > with 2.9x.y series on this list not so long ago.
> > 
> 
> Don't bother with gcc-3.0. I won't use it myself for building X.
> 
> 
> H.J.

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                        - Arnaldo