Re: [Gm2] Regenerated patches to gcc-4.1.2

[Gaius Mulley]

john o goyo <address@hidden> writes:

> On 26-Apr-11, at 8:45 AM, Gaius Mulley wrote:
>
>> john o goyo <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> From http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gm2/ChangeLog?
>>> root=gm2&view=log
>>>
>>> patches/gcc/4.1.2/01-patches: New file. These patches have been
>>> regenerated and rationalised. They have also been regression tested
>>> against the C and C++ regression tests. Both these sets of regression
>>> tests are unaffected by these patches.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does this mean that I should patch a fresh copy of gcc-4.1.2?
>>>
>>> john
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> the gm2+gcc combined tarball will have the latest patches applied.
>> You
>> could apply them yourself if you prefer using an original gcc-4.1.2
>> and
>> the patch set in gm2/patches/gcc/4.1.2
>
> I never use the tarball.  I prefer to download from Savannah and then
> build.

ok sure - but do you apply the patches?  It would be interesting to see
if the regression tests improve with patches included.  IIRC a number of
failures occur on the non free regression tests (on x86_* without
patches) - I think these were huge modules being compiled,

regards,
Gaius