Hello , I am bothering you again. Related to gcc 2.95.2 --- it has any patches for porting to mips or not ? I mean , where do I find the patches for gcc-2.95.2 for mips if there are some files. I saw that you said something like that "gcc 2.95.2 + CVS from 2.95 branch." What do you mean ? Regards, Nicu Christoph Martin wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:04:44 +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:24:21AM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > > We are trying :) I am currently basing all my Debian-mips(el) things > > > on glibc 2.0.6. It is the only stable solution right now. I am experimenting > > > with the glibc 2.1.94-3 debian source package which i managed to get > > > compiled with unmodified cvs binutils and gcc + the gcse patch. > > > > > > Ralf reported bugs in the ld where he send me a patch. With that patch > > > i get a "Bus Error" from the ld.so within the glibc build. > > > There patch is ok; you get those bus errors because there are bugs in > > both ld and binutils that in most cases compensate each other. If you > > fix only one of them you get all sorts of funnies ... > > I just tried to build glibc-2.2 (CVS-2000-12-28) for debian-mips and > it still has the "Bus Error" problem. We are currently using binutils > 2.10.1.0.2 and gcc 2.95.2 + CVS from 2.95 branch. > > Can you please post both patches, so that we can verify which one is > missing in our build. > > > Even with the fixes ld is not yet perfect - for example emacs and X still > > fail. > > The gcc/binutils combination seams to work correctly as far as I can > see. I managed to compile xfree 4.0.2 linked agains 2.1.95-1.1. What > problems did you have with X? > > Christoph
