EGCS 1.1.1 FYI

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:22:42PM +0100, Ralf Weidemann wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "David" == David Edelsohn <dje at watson.ibm.com> writes:
> >>>>> "Paul J Schinder" writes:
>     Paul> So are Gary Thomas' patches still necessary?
> 
>     David> 	The trampoline patch now has become a shared library
>     David> compatibility issue for glibc-1.99 support.  It only is
>     David> necessary until LinuxPPC cuts over to glibc-2.1 which will
>     David> require other binary incompatible changes at the same time.
> 
> Can someone clarify where the problem is exact with native
> egcs and libc-1.99 ? I use egcs-1.1.1 since the weekend and
> it seems to work fine. I had no trouble to build some shared
> lib stuff like in the latest jade or sgml-tools. This packages
> didn't compile with older version I tried (also Gary's egcs-1.1b),
> but that were generell compiler issues, I think.
> 
> But on the other side I also tried to run the SeaMonkeyBrowser
> (Mozilla) from recent cvs-sources. Building went fine, but the
> beast didn't run. I get only a simple "Aborted" message on the
> console and it seems to crash somewhere in the startup code.
> So maybe this is somehow related ?
> 
> Had someone luck to run a recent version of Mozilla at all on
> LinuxPPC ?

No.  There's a bug that at least one person (Anthony Tong) is working
on finding, something with the shared libraries, I think.  SeaMonkey
has its own set of problems, in addition - I recommend playing with
classic mozilla instead.

Dan

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