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Re: egcs/Solaris status
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 04:29:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dimitri Papadopoulos <dpo@club-internet.fr> writes:
>
> > In fact, I have built GCC with GNU as/ld (bootstraping with EGCS using
> > itself GNU as/ld and putting GNU as/ld in my PATH and /usr/ccs/bin out
> > of my PATH). I do have 107058-01 installed but this should have no
> > incidence using such a configuration.
>
> I'd double-check your assumption with gcc -print-search-dirs; remember
> that gcc has an internal list of directories that are searched *before*
> the user's path is, and on Solaris by default that list contains
> /usr/ccs/bin. So it's entirely possible for gcc on Solaris to pick up
> vendor as even if it's nowhere in your path.
>
> I realize that you're not having problems in the same place that I was,
> but you're reporting "impossible" random crashes, which is precisely the
> symptoms of the problem created by patch 107058-01 at least in my
> experience.
After we complied egcs 1.1.2, I installed patch 107058-01 and then
compiled zlib. Prior to this patch, the compile succeeded and the test
program worked fine. After applying the patch, we received SEGV during
the test program. I'd recommend staying away from 107058 too.
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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