[Q] Re: patch: ppc linker scripts

QUERY Marcus> Hi, For the xemacs ppc build at SUSE we needed to apply the attached Marcus> linker script patch. Thank you Marcus for this patch but is the linker script really necessary these days? We stopped building with it in 21.4.16 because it didn't work with GCC 3. In fact YellowDog, Debian and Gentoo all disable the linker script in their distributions. As for your other patches, could you please describe the circumstances in which they're required? I don't think that I've come across the problems these patches are fixing. For example, I'm typing this message using the latest CVS version of 21.4 on Gentoo 64-bit userland PPC64 built with the following options: '--with-widgets=motif' '--with-dialogs=motif' '--with-scrollbars=motif' '--with-menubars=lucid' '--with-gif=no' '--without-tiff' '--with-png' '--with-jpeg' '--without-xface' '--with-gpm' '--with-postgresql' '--without-ldap' '--with-sound=native' '--with-system-malloc' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-pop' '--with-ncurses' '--with-msw=no' '--mail-locking=flock' '--with-site-lisp=yes' '--with-site-modules=yes' '--without-database' This configuration passes 'make check' and works for reading and sending mail using Gnus. Malcolm -- Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt;