From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 8 02:42:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23002 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 02:42:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22997 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 02:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA18787; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:41:50 GMT Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:41:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler Difficulty In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Doug Rabson, On 07-Nov-98 you wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > > > cc -I. -O -fPIC -Ifd -Ixpm -Ispec -I../FORMS -I../FORMS/private > > > -DMAKING_FD > > > -I../xpm-3.4g -I/usr/X11R6/include -c fd_select.c > > > cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6 > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > This is in xforms, without which xfmail will not compile, without which > > > I > > > am dead... > > > > Have you tried the gcc patches from my web page > > (http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/gcc.diff). I needed them to fix a register > > allocation bug in libX11. They probably fix other things too. > > I merged them, for the next build here. Hopefully these are correct for > other than Alpha ports... I have completed many x86 buildworlds with these patches. > > BTW, why are we not upgrading our compiler? I think mainly because its a difficult job and noone who is competent enough to do the job has stepped forward (me included). Changing the system compiler is a traumatic event at the best of times and this next change will be a big one whichever compiler we choose. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message