I want to upgrade my copy of the gcc compiler for the RedHat beta because I've run into a number of cases where -O2 optimization simply doesn't work right. This is a known problem, and I'm assuming that the fixes that IBM have posted to their alpha pages fix the problems. Since IBM's patch levels don't seem to correspond to RedHat's numbering scheme, I'd planned to download the SRPM for gcc from the RedHat private beta site, see what patches had been applied and then add any new IBM patches to that and rebuild the RPMs. However, I see that the RedHat beta site is no longer present (at least not under the directory in the original announcement message). There appears to be an s390 version under /pub and it appears to have been updated quite recently. There's also a note in the doc directory which states that this is based on the "20010405 update". Is that a reference to an IBM update level (such that I could find what patches had been applied)? Does this level have all the gcc fixes (such that -O2 should now work)? Should I update my running version of the original beta from this copy? Thanks, Mike Durket
