From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 08:43:46 +0000 Subject: Re: gcc problems Message-Id: <20040206004346.225040c0.akpm@osdl.org> List-Id: References: <20040206000058.7e928d80.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040206000058.7e928d80.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Ian Wienand wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:00:58AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > gcc-3.3.2/ia64 is falling over here with my current tree so I'm trying to > > build gcc-3.4 from current gcc CVS. > > That probably shouldn't be happening... It's what we use all the time. > I assume gcc is segfaulting? I rebuilt and it went away. It could have been a 2.6 kernel bug ;) > > Is there some trick to this? And what is the preferred gcc version for > > ia64 kernels? > > Well I don't know exactly about that CVS gcc problem, but something > that may be useful if you use Debian is that there is a little known > 'gcc-snapshot' package that is usually quite up to date and saves you > having to build yourself. See the README.Debian for a sample wrapper. > I would prefer to build gcc direct from the gcc team, really, thanks.