From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jan 20 7:50:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B56DC37B401 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 07:50:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 34414 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2001 15:49:59 -0000 Received: from merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (131.220.161.121) by dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de with SMTP; 20 Jan 2001 15:49:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 48558 invoked by uid 145); 20 Jan 2001 15:49:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jan 2001 15:49:58 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:49:58 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Conrad To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Ralph Schreyer , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enlightenment does not run on a DIGITAL 433au In-Reply-To: <14953.44278.25966.321508@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> 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, 20 Jan 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Ralph Schreyer writes: > > Hello, > > > > We have installed 4.2 RELEASE on our 433au and up to now everything works > > fine. The compilation of enlightenment-0.16.5 went through without any > > problems, but if we start enlightenment, nothing happens, aside from the > > fact that the box starts swapping very heavily. The output of 'top' gives > > <...> > > Make sure that when you compile it, the compiler is using "-O" as its > optimization flag. Not -O2 or -O4 or anything like that. And make > sure there is a '-O' there. Gcc on alpha is buggy and we've found > that using anything other than -O can result in subtle bugs in > gcc-compiled binaries. We used -O for all compilations. What makes us wonder is that the whole GNOME works without problems. So I think there is a specific alpha problem in enlightenment. > > Drew > regards Jan -- Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn Nussallee 12 D-53115 Bonn GERMANY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message