On 04/04/2011 11:58 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: > In the PR audit trail, I've proposed to revert the patch, and HJ and > Benjamin are also in favor of that. In Benjamin's works: Bootstrap has > been broken for much too long, on all the common devel arches.
Which is not actually true, see the second-to-last message in that bug: "But x86/Linux, x86-64/Linux, x86-64/Darwin, x86/Solaris and SPARC/Solaris now bootstrap fine for me so there is some progress." What's still broken is --disable-checking bootstrap on i686-linux. This reproduces for me with both with a tree checked out at revision 171823, which is the one before my checkins, and a current tree with my patches reverted. There's a tendency for people to pile on an existing bugzilla report rather than properly investigate what's actually causing their problems. What's left are failures on mips64-linux and ia64, which I'm investigating now. I don't think anyone has done a proper analysis for what caused them either, although I guess my prune_ready_list patch is a major suspect. Clearly this is unfortunate, but I don't think these two are common devel arches either, as claimed by Steven. Bernd
