A while ago I posted a workaround for a problem with egcs on Alpha
(with Linux and apparently also with Digital Unix) in math_iter.C
from lyx-1.0.3. It was caused, most likely, by an incorrect
inlining in some circumstances of memcpy function.
Because gcc-2.95 is available I tried to see if this problem is gone.
Indeed, a non-modified source of lyx-1.0.3 recompiled with gcc-2.95
seem to work correctly; at least with this small amount of testing
I tried.
Still using gcc-2.95 brought to light another "gotcha". This compiler
is stricter in following ANSI C++ standard and during 'configure'
run this elicites 24 messages like that:
configure:5780: ANSI C++ forbids declaration `select' with no type
which, in turn, makes an incorrect "config.h" because trial calls to
a compiler fail. As a result the whole compilation stops with errors.
An ultimate problem is likely with used 'autoconf'.
The following patch to 'configure' solves the problem:
--- lyx-1.0.3/configure~ Tue Jun 1 04:07:35 1999
+++ lyx-1.0.3/configure Mon Aug 2 14:08:38 1999
@@ -5777,7 +5777,7 @@
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
#include <sys/socket.h>
#endif
-extern select
($ac_cv_func_select_arg1,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg5);
+extern int select
+($ac_cv_func_select_arg1,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg5);
int main() {
; return 0; }
Michal
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