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- From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: gcc2.2.2 and X11R5
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.003008.10357@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Organization: Inland Sea
- References: <1992Aug20.125042.13301@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Aug20.163706.1779@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <1992Aug20.165136.2723@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 00:30:08 GMT
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- scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen) writes:
-
- >As a postscript to the last message, I have now built the server using cc
- >instead of gcc and although the server runs ok, there are still broken
- >facets to the environment - like the expansion icon in the upper right of
- >twm windows being missing, and twm menu commands (shell escapes) failing.
-
- >My recommendation to all people out there attempting this is DON'T USE GCC
- >vers 2.2.2 TO BUILD X!!! It does not appear to have what it takes.
-
- Wait a minute . . .
-
- If the gcc version you build is broken, and the cc version is broken,
- then there are fundamental errors somewhere which are independant of
- the compilers. *Something* is configured wrong: the way you build X,
- your system, your C library, but *something*. There are too damned
- many existence proofs showing it works.
- --
- "Voodoun is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those
- members of it who are dead."
- -- "Good Omens", by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
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