[tlbuild] build error on Debian/etch alpha-linux

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Mon Jun 2 15:45:22 CEST 2008


On 2 Jun 2008, at 2:30 pm, Norbert Preining wrote:

> On Mo, 02 Jun 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> This has nothing to do with the source code, that is what I was  
>> trying to
>> say. Your compiler is buggy!
>
> Ah, sorry. Ok, that is bad.
>
>> As  far I remember, the 4.1.x series was buggy. Update your gcc:  
>> current
>> version is 4.3.0.
>
> Hmm, not that easy ... unfortunately there is not gcc 4.3 already
> packaged for etch/alpha. Damned.

Can you try going back to an earlier version? Bugs like this can be  
highly release-specific. Maybe 4.0.x would avoid it?

Or try changing compiler options, e.g. the optimization level, to see  
if that avoids triggering the bug.

JK



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