<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Niels M�ller wrote on 25-February-2000:
>
> ->Strange. My primary development machine is a SparcStation4 with
> ->Redhat-6.0 installed.
>
> Cool.
It works fine. Except for X-server, which is so unstable that it is
unusable.
> ->What compiler are you using? I seem to recall
> ->that I had to upgrade some of the development tools because those
> ->supplied with redhat were broken. I'm at work now, so I can't check
> ->exactly what it is that I have installed at home.
>
> This is what I have:
>
> SparcLinux# uname -a
> Linux [hostname.deleted] 2.2.5-22 #1 Wed Jun 2 09:00:53 EDT 1999 sparc unknown
> SparcLinux# rpm -q egcs
> egcs-1.1.2-13
I definitely don't use egcs. I would recommend either upgrading to
gcc-2.95.2, or downgrading to the good old stable gcc-2.7.2.3 (if you
downgrade, you might want to keep egcs for compiling C++).
(I think it was a Really Bad decision to ship egcs as the system C
compiler. I would not at all be surprised if problems like the
unstable X server were tracked down to some egcs bug. No, I don't have
anything against the egcs project. But it was never intended to be
used as a system compiler for production use, and should not have been
used for that).
> SparcLinux# rpm -q binutils
> binutils-2.9.1.0.23-1
I think I upgraded binutils from the latest version at the canonical
gnu archives. I don't remember exactly why. I do recall some problems
with compiling gmp.
I have also upgraded to the latest release of GNU make.
/Niels
