Re: egcs & bzip2

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

Going through some old mail...  Found this...

  In message <34899AD1.9FE2C90C@muraroa.demon.co.uk>you write:
  > I was pleased to see you using bzip2 to distribute it.  A couple
  > of small things, re your page
  > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html:
  > 
  > -- Perhaps put a link to http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk
  >    where people can pick up pre-compiled versions?  Or mirror
  >    them yourself?  Saves people the hassle of compiling it,
  >    at least for some platforms.
We did this a month or so ago -- we now link to the bzip2 home page.

  > -- I was alarmed to read: "gcc-2.7 for linux will mis-compile bzip2 
  >    if you use the optimizer; make sure to turn off the optimizer when
  >    building bzip2 with gcc-2.7."
  > 
  >    Can you be a little more specific?  Is this gcc-2.7.0, or 2.7.X, or
  >    what?  I've bzip2'd several thousand MB on x86-linux with 2.7.2 
  >    with no problems at all.  I presume it works ok on egcs-1.0 :-)
I don't remember the details -- basically we couldn't bzip2, then bunzip2 the
egcs-1.0 distribution :(

We haven't had any trouble with the newer versions of bzip as far as I know.


jeff