On Wed, 30 May 2001, John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 30 May 2001, John Levon wrote:
> > > On Tue, 29 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > It's a Mandrake 8.0 OS with gcc-2.96. Let me know if I'm doing something
> > >
> > > Mandrake 8.0 comes with some version of RH gcc 2.96 ? Yuck !
> > > What's the RPM version ? I wonder which RH version it's based on. Any RH7.0 gcc
> > > will miscompile lyx sometimes.
> >
> > rpm -q says "gcc-2.96-0.48mdk". The last entry in the Changelog in
> > /usr/share/doc/gcc-2.96 is from 2000-07-31.
> >
> > Mike
>
> I'm not sure if that file will include additional patches from vendor.
> If not, they're using a totally broken optimiser. I never got a response
> on whether we should disable optimisation on gcc 2.96 or not ??
>
> I'm not much surprised since they also ship an /alpha/ version of vim as
> the only vi package (not even beta !). I'm surprised they haven't included
> current CVS lyx or something ;)
If they did then their gcc-2.96 would crash with an internal error.
Mike, do this:
rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep gcc` --nodeps
the Mdk gcc is crap. Rebuild your own 2.95.2 or 2.95.3.
If you like I'll send you my 2.95.3 spec file so you can replace the mdk
gcc with something useful.
Allan. (ARRae)
