971016 disaster

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 9710232046.AA01097@negril.msrce.howard.edu >you write:
  > 474 unexpected failures for g++ and 66 unexpected errors for gcc.  This
  > would appear to be quite a down grade from the last snapshot, which was
  > a huge down grade from the one before that.  Could it be that installing
  > the 971006 dejagnu snapshot broke the testing or have some recent changes
  > broken egcs for me?
Hmmm, I'd be suprised if installing a new dejagnu snapshot would
have this kind of effect.

Richard did install a bunch-o-alpha patches, so I wonder if there's
a problem lurking in onw of them.

Richard -- care to comment?


jeff