Re: 2.0.35 fails to run X with egcs-19980803.

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:45:35 -0400

Sang Kang <sang@mocha.dyn.ml.org> said:
> I was trying out the snapshot of egcs(19980803) and found out that
> .. well.. there is a problem - X doesn't start up but rather gives
> some kind of connection failed (111).

You should not compile 2.0.xx kernels with anything but gcc-2.7.2.x, there
are several known areas where the kernel depends on the compiler not doing
several optimizations, or depends on gcc brokenness. The number of unknown
spots where this is the case is probably way larger, and nobody is willing
to put in the work to test the whole thing with 2.2 around the corner.

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