On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:34:39PM -0700, Michael Durket wrote: > 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? 20010405 is the date where all current rpms from Red Hat Linux have been taken here at Red Hat. ftp://ftp.redhat.de.pub/s390/ contains the newest s390 version and ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390/ still needs another update to push current things out. Florian La Roche
