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gcc 2.91.66, 2.95.3, 2.95.4, growfs

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Subject: gcc 2.91.66, 2.95.3, 2.95.4, growfs
From: Sidik Isani <isani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:03:49 -1000 (HST)
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hello -

  I'd like to upgrade to the proper kernel compiler, but things are
  still confusing.  About 10 days ago . . .

Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|At 13:18 16-10-2001 +0200, Robert Sander wrote:
|>Hi!
|>
|>I just found the FAQ stating that one should compile an XFS kernel
|>with gcc 2.91.66. Even Debian potato has 2.95.2 onboard.
|>Does anyone know a debian source for 2.91.66 that is installable
|>on woody or potato?
|
|Use alien to convert the compat-egcs rpm fropm redhat and install that. 

  Does this mean that the RedHat package is not the same as
  egcs.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.1.2/egcs-1.1.2.tar.gz ???
  That's the one I was about to try, but then I read this message.

|People have reported success with that. The newer gcc from debian unstable 
|seems to do reasonable as well.

  What exactly is gcc-2.95.4?  An unreleased CVS version?  I'm just
  a little surprised that there is not a single stable version of
  gcc on ftp.gnu.org that can compile the Linux kernel. :-(  I had
  been using 2.95.3, but eventually I discovered the grow_fs bug which
  you guys apparently tracked down to that register spill/reload bug
  in gcc-2.96.*.  So... I gues that means gcc-2.95.3 has it as well?

   o Does anyone know if gcc-2.95.4 is really fixed?
   o Where does one get gcc-2.95.4?
   o If egcs-1.1.2.tar.gz is not the same as gcc-2.91.66, then could
     someone point me to a source tar-ball?

  Believe me, I want to use the "right" version, but it is not easy!

Thanks for your help,

- Sidik


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