On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> William Gallafent
> > Is it possible, then, that a system with the bugged SA and a compiler
> > which shouldn't work with it could compile the whole of qt (shared) 
> > without problem (as mine did) and then fail on bzip2, or is it more likely
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > that something has happened to my system in between? If so, what? (bearing
> > in mind that I've tried installing both comp sets) ... shared library
> > problem - does cc1 use a shared library? 
> 
> Ah, the one piece of information I needed which you didn't disclose before.
> I've tried compiling bzip2 for armlinux with an ARM610 and gcc 2.7.2.2.  It
> fails to compile bzip2.  However, 2.8.0 worked just fine.  It miscompiles
> other things, but that's by the by.  I haven't tried 2.8.1 or EGCS.  Perhaps
> someone would like to try it?

bzip2 works fine on my 1.3 system (using the comp.tgz from the 1.3
release and the cc1 bits from the 1.3_alpha release), compiled just fine,
I might have had to use gmake, can't remember...


Chris