On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:26, Seth Mos wrote:
> At 10:58 26-6-2002 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >What are your feelings on using other versions of gcc for XFS builds?
>
> 2.95.3 is used out there in various distributions and works for most
> people. I have not seen any take messages in a while that fixed bugs with
> respect to compilers.
>
> 2.91.66 is the most tested compiler and is used for any SGI
> releases/installers. it's not that it won't work with other compilers. That
> period is long gone.
>
> >What about GCC 3.1.latest?
>
> People are using it. No real problems AFAIK (or they are not speaking up).
> we have seen more reports on the various 2.96 compilers then the gcc 3
> branch. The latest errata gcc-2.96 from redhat (or from 7.3) does works as
> advertised.
>From my experience I have successfully compiled XFS on a couple versions of
gcc: 2.91.66, 2.96, 3.0.x. However, from experience the issue is with
debugging as kdb doesn't always show the truth with anything but 2.91.66
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