On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:34:05PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Bob, I've just recompiled iceweasel and icedove with gcc-4.6 and full > optimisation (other than --no-relax in the linker) and the crashes in > those two packages have disappeared. I am sending this message with > icedove from my Alpha --- the first time I have been able to do this > since before the release of Lenny! I suspect that optimisation bugs in > gcc-4.4 have been fixed in gcc-4.5 and gcc-4.6 but not back-ported to > gcc-4.4, and on Alpha we are unfortunately still defaulting to gcc-4.4. > I wonder if the crashes in KDE are due to bugs in gcc-4.4.
Wonderful news concerning gcc/g++-4.6, and I think rebuilding several of our (Alpha's) more "questionable" packages would be a worthwhile exercise. That being said, my FreeNX KDE4 sessions are fully operational (with non-optimized qt4-x11): no system lock-ups, nepomuk running, virtuoso-t running, etc. Got little pop-up status messages about indexing the desktop starting, then completing approximately a minute and a half later without any problems. There may be other bugs lurking within the KDE packages, but the system is rock-solid stable as long as I don't try KDE4 or Gnome-3 on the console. None of this means we aren't seeing some buggy kernel behavior (kms/drm) due to kernels built with gcc-4.4 :-(. I think trying a kernel built with gcc-4.6 would be a worthwhile exercise, so I'll do that with the next "-rcX" when that happens. Have I mentioned lately how much I hate an untrustworthy tool chain? Apologies to the kde/qt maintainers for the noise. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111212125823.ga4...@gherkin.frus.com
