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SubjectRe: 2.0.35 fails to run X with egcs-19980803.
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Sang Kang wrote:

> I was trying out the snapshot of egcs(19980803) and found out that
> . well.. there is a problem - X doesn't start up but rather gives
> some kind of connection failed (111).
>
> I remember seeing this error when I compiled the kernel with gcc-2.8.1,
> so when I switched back to gcc-2.7.2.3 (and later egcs-1.0.3a) where
> it works perfectly. I asked the guy named Jeffrey A Law (maintainer of
> egcs) and his reply follows:
>
> <snip>
> egcs does have these optimizations; however I was under the impressions
> that newer versions of ioport.c were fixed to avoid the problem.
>
> It is possible the bogus asm instructions in the 2.0.x kernels are causing
> problems. I've been told these incorrect asms are fixed in the 2.1.x
> kernels.
> </snip>
>
> I havn't tried compiling 2.1.115 with egcs-19980803 (no disk space & time).
>
> Can someone share the wisdom with me regarding this matter?

Sure can.

You cannot compile ANY 2.0.x kernel with anything other than
gcc-2.7.2 and expect it to work.

Some people report that their kernels work when compiled by egcs
or pgcc, but further probing shows that most of them have
modified the kernel by using 2.1.x files for ioport.c, or other
things.

A stock 2.0.x kernel does not support compilation by any other
compiler.

Use gcc-2.7.2, or use a 2.1.x kernel.


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