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Re: glibc 2.1.2pre3


>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:

Ulrich> "J. Daniel Powell" <dan@brickwall.org> writes:
>> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
>> 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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