From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 26 03:57:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA04982 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 03:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA04977 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 03:57:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from EXIT10 (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.97]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA01763; Tue, 26 May 1998 06:56:54 -0400 (EDT) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Chuck Robey Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:59:24 GMT Message-ID: <356a9f0a.251653824@mail.cetlink.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA04978 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 May 1998 01:23:15 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Robey wrote: >> > > BTW, what's you opinion of egcs? >> > >> > It seems to have frequent ups and downs. >I don't know if it counts as a very persuasive data point, but a real >large port of mine, octave, won't build under egcs (I got an internal >compiler error for which I submitted a bug report). Gcc-2.8.1 compiled >and ran it fine The "e" in egcs does stand for experimental. The NetBSD developers must be confident the bugs will shake out soon since they are planning to move to egcs, or they must think the benefits are worth the bugs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message