Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> tetexlive-bin fails to build on Alpha:
>>
> [...]
>> The reason is an obscure bug in gcc that only triggers when accessing
>> exactly the 32767th element of a character array. Since I don't know
>> how fix it in gcc and nobody else seems to be working on that, I
>> suggest you apply the following workaround:
>
> I think we'll do that. Do you know which versions of gcc show that bug?
good: 3.3, 3.4, 4.0
bad: 4.1, 4.2
> Upstream also provides binaries for Linux on alpha, so obviously they
> didn't encounter it.
Maybe they used one of the good versions, or compiled with -mcpu=ev56
or higher.
--
Falk
