egcs-1.1 status (PPC)

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199808181147.EAA14980@cygnus.com >you write:
  > 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 o
  > n
  > >  > 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.
OK.  Unless folks say otherwise within the next 24hrs 2.1.115 will
be the kernel we perform testing against for the egcs-1.1 release.

This doesn't mean we can't also test newer kernels, but 2.1.115 is
the one that we must correctly compile before releaseing egcs-1.1. 
We can fix problems exposed by newer kernels in minor releases.


  > 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.
Cool.  We've still got the PIC register problem (980526-1), which
Meissner will have to help with (fixing it looks to be rather complex),
varargs problems, and a bug or two that you've recently reported.

  > 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 ;-).
The magic tag is "glibc-4-egcs-1_1".  That's the version that needs
to successfully build and check.  If you could verify that for the 
ppc, it would be greatly appreciated..

  > 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.
I'm doing the same for the x86 right now :-)  There's been a couple
minor problems, but it's mostly just working.


  > Other progs: 
  > - KDE-1.0 compiles and works (kdegames/ksnake fails because of bad c++ sour
  > ce)
  > - 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
This is excellent information to get.  While I won't hold up the release
for any of these things, we do benefit by trying to build them and
fixing what bugs we can (or noting that it did successfully build).

Thanks!
jeff