Re: Failure to build on OpenBSD macppc

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Ok, I have narrowed down the problem to being a problem in GCC, not in
>     Emacs.  Emacs compiled with "-g -O2" (the default) does not work,
>     while -O1 does.  This also explains why -ggdb3 worked, I never passed
>     a optimisation switch, so Emacs was compiled without optimisations.
>
> Which GCC versions does this fail with?  Does it fail with the latest
> GCC version?  If so, we had better track it down so as to make a good
> GCC bug report.
>
> For this Emacs release, we can deal with it with a note in
> etc/PROBLEMS.  But that note should say whether upgrading GCC is a
> solution.
>
> So would someone please try installing the latest GCC release
> and see?

As a note aside: GCC 4.2 has just been released a few days ago.

-- 
David Kastrup