On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:57:08PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Franz Sirl, the ppclinux devtool maintainer, has kindly > built the current rawhide XFree86 4.3.0 srpms against > gcc-3.3 from 6/18/03 on Yellow Dog Linux. He is unable to > reproduce the authentication problems we see on debian > under either xdm or kdm. Perhaps we build XFree86 differently > enough from RedHat that only we tickled the gcc bug. However > I did find out that the gcc 3.3 that RedHat uses is not > a patched version of the gcc 3.3 branch but rather a special > rh branch of gcc-3.3. One wonders if they would see the > problem if they used the stock gcc-3.3 branch instead and > if there are any fixes trapped in the gcc-3.3 rh branch that > haven't been put into the main gcc-3.3 branch.
Err, perhaps Red Hat's RPMs force a lower optimization level? I *did* point out the breakage on packagers-list ... -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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