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Subject: Re: gcc 2.7.1 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 24 Dec 1995 13:43:46 EDT.
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 06:33:42 EDT
From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
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> 
> > 
> > Surely as you suggest most people who are in need of the latest version
> > of a gcc or whatever can probably compile it themselves, but it 
> > takes a lot of time and effort to make sure its installed prpoperly
> > and working properly, especially to test the c++ installation because
> > you can't do the 2 or 3 stage build/compare with it.  It would be nice
> > to at least see a set of difss or a package for libg++ and recent versions
> > of gcc, this is my point.  I can contribute what I've done, but who knows
> > if I've done it right.  If there is one unified version, then everyone who
> > finds problems can contribute them and the GNU team will be better notified
> > of FreeBSD diffs.
> 
> Ahh!  Then you're asking for a port of gcc!  Now that is an idea I can 
> completely agree with, and it sounds like a wise thing to do.  It'll give 
> a lot of FreeBSD folks experience with it and it's various 
> bugs/enhancements.   I think it was Kaleb Keithley that I saw reporting 
> his experiences with 2.7.2.  Are you reading this, Kaleb?

I am, but the younger Keithleys insisted that I spend Christmas with them.
:-)

My 2.7.2 compiled kernel must have 10 or more days uptime by now. It'd
probaby have more except that I had to reboot for some reason I've now
forgotten. I reverted to 2.6.3 (but haven't recompiled my kernel yet) 
because the X server compiled with 2.7.2 consistently SEGV'd in the same 
place every time I ran it. The same server compiled with 2.6.3 does not,
and 2.7.2 w/ -g does not either.

--

Kaleb KEITHLEY