Re: 2.1.126 works...Kinda.

[Alex Pilosov <apilos01 utopia poly edu>]

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> 
> > I compiled 2.1.126 and running with it for last 4 days. It barfed on
> > acct.c once, so I turned process accounting off. Also nbd.c (network block
> > device) doesn't compile, (a shame, but I can live without that). Other
> > than these things, works just dandy. This is SX164 using SX164 kernel (NOT
> > Generic one).
> > 
> 
> Did you have to download any alpha specific patches?  If so, where?
No, running stock 2.1.126 kernel. 5.0 redhat with most packages upgraded
to 5.2 version.

> > Another interesting point of note is speedup from compiling it on DU...Its
> > amazing, I have 80% speed improvement. (Comparing DU cc -O5 vs egcs -O2).
> > That says something about quality of DEC compilers...
> > 
> 
> Yeah, so when will Compaq start shipping Alpha's with DEC compilers?  Or, 
> at the very least make DEC compilers available?

I have a DU license on the box I compiled these binaries with, of course.

I believe someone mentioned that linking statically with DU libc and
using those binaries on non-DU licensed machine would be violation of
license, though. Not sure whether this is valid...Comments from DEC?

Also, have anyone tried to compile glibc on DU so we can link statically
with it and not be suspect in violation of anything?

I wish Digital would sell DU for a reasonable price, or unbundle
compilers, or at least unbundle runtime system (libc et al)...Oh well

-alex