From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 19 9:56:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415F337B424 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 09:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4JGu7w27228; Sat, 19 May 2001 12:56:07 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200105152154.RAA02417@cs.rpi.edu> References: <200105152154.RAA02417@cs.rpi.edu> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 12:56:04 -0400 To: "David E. Cross" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: ypserv, the continuing battle... (db rtns in libc) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:54 PM -0400 5/15/01, David E. Cross wrote: >I saw this the other day: > >http://www.sleepycat.com/historic.html > >Down at the bottom: > >> Finally, you should not upgrade your GNU gcc or Solaris compiler. > > Optimizations in versions of gcc 2 that were in alpha test in > > the summer of 1997, and a version of the standard Solaris > > WorkShop Compiler that was in beta test in the fall of 1997, > > trigger bugs in versions 1.85 and 1.86 that will cause sporadic > > core dumps. > > >My questions are: >1) will gcc without any '-O' flags make a difference? > >2) Can we upgrade to the latest Berkley DB (we will need to do > a version bump of libc to accomplish this). Are there any licensing issues with the newer version? Compatibility problems? It seems to me that if the source we're using will trigger bugs in multiple compilers, then it would be better to upgrade that source than to futz around with compiler flags. How much newer is the newer-version than the version in freebsd's libc? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message