Re: GCC|KGCC + Redhat + Linux-2.4.5

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 18:14 27-8-2001 +0930, David Lloyd wrote:

>Compiling the Linus Linux Kernel 2.4.5 patched by SGI for XFS with the
>default gcc installed by RedHat appears to:

Don't use the redhat gcc on production systems.

>* fail to unlink files (especially when using vim but other files, such
>as images, saved by Opera)
>
>Furthermore, it managed to corrupt my file system to the extent that I
>had to run xfs_repair in single user mode. I lost nothing, but...
>
>Interestingly, the prepackaged 2.4.3 release (i.e. SGI had compiled it)
>did not display this behaviour.

Probably because it included patches to make the kernel compile decently 
with their 2.96 compiler.

Know issue.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.