Re: -fPIC joy, lexcmp woes.

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:50:03PM -0800, Phil Carmody wrote:
> After much confusion, it appears that without the patch it alwas fails to
> build, and with the patch it builds cleanly, so -fPIC was the cure. However...
> 
> 
> *** ../src/test/64/objets       Tue Jun 24 13:42:05 2003
> --- gp.out      Tue Dec  9 19:35:45 2003
> ***************
> *** 54,60 ****
>   ? imag(2+3*I)
>   3
>   ? lex([1,3],[1,3,5])
> ! -1
>   ? max(2,3)
>   3
>   ? min(2,3)
> --- 54,60 ----
>   ? imag(2+3*I)
>   3
>   ? lex([1,3],[1,3,5])
> ! 4294967295
>   ? max(2,3)
>   3
>   ? min(2,3)
> ***************

I have commited the changes that cure this problem but I have no access
to a suitable box for testing purpose.

If you have a alpha or ia64 box with gcc 3.x, please run before
updating:
./Configure -g
cd O*.dbg
make bench

and retry after the update if that suppress the BUG messages.

Thanks!

Bill.