Re: egcs-1.1 status (PPC)

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 05:12 18.08.98 , Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  In message <v04011701b1fc7dbe97be@[206.163.71.146]>you write:
>  > I'd be happy to volunteer for building glibc[0] and the linux kernel on
>  > powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu targets.
>Let's start with the kernel build.  I'm tempted to declare 2.1.115 as
>the kernel to build and test.  Can you do that for the ppc?

Kernel (2.1.115vger) building works fine with egcs-1.1. All known bugs with
egcs-1.0.x have been fixed (except assembler inlining for byte-swapping,
but this could be bad source according to David). Currently I don't know of
any problem in the kernel, that can be contributed to egcs-1.1.

>Note I just checked in a patch to fix a ppc bug, so you should probably
>update your source tree and rebuild before trying to build the kernel.

I haven't seen this bug in the kernel yet, most "bugs" I see now reported
are in complex user programs (2 so far, one of them you just fixed,
thanks!) or due to the stricter C++ handling. This is really a big step
forward for egcs on PPC, I even saw the first reports complaining about
compiler performance :-) and no longer about compiler bugs.

>  > [0] I have built various snapshots and test releases of glibc 2.1 many
>  > times with 1.0.x releases of egcs.
>I've just asked Uli for the magic tag in the glibc sources so that we
>can make sure everyone is testing the same code.  Hopefully he'll have
>the tree tagged soon.

That would be fine. But I can tell you that the current cvs-glibc compiled
fine yesterday and works without problems on my machine so far. I haven't
run "make check" though ;-).

Most of RedHat-5.1 compiled fine so far (one problem reported two days ago,
and the known problem with tcltk-8.0 covered by gcc.dg/980526-1.c). The
debian reports I heard are quite promising too.

Other progs: 
- KDE-1.0 compiles and works (kdegames/ksnake fails because of bad c++ source)
- qt-1.33 compiles and works
- qt-1.40 compiles, but has problems with drag-select, not investigated yet
- mozilla: no status yet
- jdk: no status yet
- ssl-0.9.0b: one bug report I have to investigate yet

Franz.