egcs-1.1 status

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Mon, 17 August 1998, 20:52:38, law@hurl.cygnus.com wrote:

 > 
 >   In message < 13782.44956.806176.986098@saturn.hollstein.net >you write:
 >   > What do   you expect in  concrete? 
 > Well, we want to select a particular kernel version to build (and
 > presumably run :-).
 > 
 > The 2.0.3? kernels have the asm bugs, so those aren't particularly
 > desirable.  Which leaves us with the 2.1.xxx kernels; lacking any
 > knowledge of the status of the 2.1.xxx kernels, I'd select 2.1.115
 > as the one that needs to build and run on the x86, alpha, sparc and
 > ppc.  But if there's a more appropriate kernel to build as a test I'm
 > open to suggestions.

I've built 2.1.115 already with the egcs-1.1 pre-release; I never had
any problems with it. JFYI, I've also built several X clients (xanim,
xmcd, xmmix) and XEmacs-20.4 successfully with it.

 > 
 > Similarly for glibc, except that Uli is supposed to make a tag in the
 > glibc sources so that we have a common test base.
 > 
 > jeff

As I'll be leaving in two days time, I suggest you'd remove me from the
list of testers; just use my OK for the above items.

manfred