gotom, The revised gcc-3.2-compatible sysdeps/powerpc/libgcc-compat.S code is now checked into glibc-2-2-branch. I have built both the straight glibc-2-2-branch checkout as well as debian glibc packages based off of the 2.2.5-14 source package, by creating a new cvs patch vs the current glibc-2-2-branch. In both cases, the glibc builds fine and passes all of make check. On ppc we are set now for you to do your glibc-2-2-branch cvs pull for glibc-2.2.5-15. The only caveat at the moment is that you will need to wait for Chris Chimelis to push his new binutils 2.13.90.0.4-1 packages into sid. Also with this new pull from the cvs we will need a Depends added to glibc on binutils (>=2.13.90.0.4) for the ppc. This is because the new libgcc-compat code tickles some obscure binutils bugs when the libc.so.6 from this code is used to build programs against gcc < 3.1 (e.g. gcc 2.95.4). This bug is described here...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-08/msg00173.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-08/msg00175.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-08/msg00180.html With the new binutils 2.13.90.0.4 and a current pull from glibc-2-2-branch, debian ppc will be in excellent shape to be one of the first, if not the first, platform to switch over to gcc 3.2 builds in debian ppc sid. Jack ps FYI, with the new expect 3.80-1 package that was added into debian sid (fixing a bug causing spurious false failures in the gcc testsuite), the current gcc 3.2 package in sid now passes the testsuite correctly (matching the results that are seen by Franz Sirl).
