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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:21:28 +0100 (MET) Ivan Popov <pin_at_math.chalmers.se> wrote: > Hello Marcel, > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Marcel Pol wrote: > > Hello, > > I started using codafs very recently, and I noticed it only builds with > > gcc-2.9x. > > I cannot give you any guarantee of course, > but I am running recent Coda (cvs, later than 5.3.19) and using gcc 3.2. > So far I have no good reason to believe gcc-3.2 breaks the code, as when I > wanted sometimes to exclude it as a reason for errors, I recompiled with > 2.95.4 and got the same behavior pattern. > > It does not mean the compile is bug-free, but the possible bugs are well > hidden :) > > I have seen similar - while still different - compile problems once and > had to make small changes to the code, but my recent compile tree does not > contain such fixes, that means they have been fixed in the cvs repository. > > I think most of gcc-3.2-related issues have been sorted out, > at least in the development branch, or I am extremely lucky :-) Ok thanks for the information. I'll be trying out a cvs version then, and see how it goes. I assume I only need to download coda from cvs, and not lwp, rpc2 and rvm, right? > > gcc-3.2-2mdk > > gcc-c++-3.2-2mdk > > glibc-2.2.5-16mdk > > kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk > > My setup is (all compiled from source) : > Linux 2.4.19 > gcc-3.2 > compile time glibc 2.2.4 or 2.2.5 (unsure) > coda runtime glibc 2.2.5 > > In other words, for your question about future Coda versions, it should be > ok to compile with 3.2. > Any incompatibility with 3.2 if not a gcc bug (that means - when Coda > really violates C specification) is essentially a Coda bug and as such > will be fixed surely. > > > The message I got was that even if the build errors are fixed, there > > might be other problems which could cause data corruption. > > Sure, there is no safety in this world :-/ but 3.2 looks much better that > 3.1, and I think Jan has fixed a lot in Coda since that. -- Marcel Pol Linux 2.4.19-16.ringworld-mdk, up 2 days, 20:11 Registered User #163523Received on 2002-10-30 07:30:47