Re: alpha-linux build failure
SL Baur writes:
nbecker <nbecker(a)fred.net> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
> The problem is egcs-1.1. I rebuilt with egcs-1.0.2 (as it comes from
> RH5.1) and it's working fine.
Wonderful. This isn't the first report of XEmacs getting axe-murdered
by this compiler.
We probably need to add a warning about egcs-1.1 somewhere in
PROBLEMS.
Why wait for XEmacs to crash? We should make configure flat out
refuse to build XEmacs using egcs-1.1. After seeing people
report the gcc-2.7 -fcaller-saves induced crash over and over
again, I think we should refuse to build using broken compilers
unless we have a fix in place. For the aforementioned crash,
compiling with -fno-caller-saves is a fix. Is there a fix for
the egcs-1.1 crashes?