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Re: glibc 2.1.2pre3
>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:
Ulrich> "J. Daniel Powell" <dan@brickwall.org> writes:
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>> While compiling on an alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu, I received the
>> following error:
Ulrich> This is known and it is a problem in gcc, not glibc. There is no way
Ulrich> to compile glibc on Alpha with gc 2.95 or later. It will be fixed but
Ulrich> for now you have to use an older compiler and never use the complex
Ulrich> float functions.
Let's document this at least somewhere. I'm appending a patch for the
FAQ.
Andreas
--- FAQ.in.~2~ Mon Aug 16 06:45:21 1999
+++ FAQ.in Fri Aug 27 09:37:56 1999
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@
GNU CC versions 2.95 and above are derived from egcs, and they may do even
better.
+Please note that gcc 2.95 can not compile glibc on Alpha due to problems in
+the complex float support.
+
?? When I try to compile glibc I get only error messages.
What's wrong?
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