EGCS/X/RH5.1

[Dave Gilbert <gilbertd treblig org>]

Hi,
  I think the result of previous questions about whether RH were using
EGCS for compiling RH5.1 itself was yes for applications.  (If I'm
wrong please correct me).

  Anyway, as far as I can tell using the latest hot off the press EGCS
to built XFree for my Matrox produces corrupted text fonts when I exit
X. This has always happened with EGCS, but I'd hoped the latest
XFree patches (which I applied) would have cured this (they mention
fixes for build problems in GCC 2.8.1). If this is the case what have
RH done for RH5.1?

  While were on the RH/EGCS question - if they have used EGCS which
processor was it configured for?

(Incidentally the latest EGCS (with its new optimisations) appears to
produce code slightly slower than its immediate predecessor; and like its
previous predecessor also ABORTs (Sig 6) when trying to build Povray).

Dave

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