On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:21:28 +0100 (MET)
Ivan Popov <pin_at_math.chalmers.se> wrote:

> Hello Marcel,
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Marcel Pol wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I started using codafs very recently, and I noticed it only builds with
> > gcc-2.9x.
> 
> I cannot give you any guarantee of course,
> but I am running recent Coda (cvs, later than 5.3.19) and using gcc 3.2.
> So far I have no good reason to believe gcc-3.2 breaks the code, as when I
> wanted sometimes to exclude it as a reason for errors, I recompiled with
> 2.95.4 and got the same behavior pattern.
> 
> It does not mean the compile is bug-free, but the possible bugs are well
> hidden :)
> 
> I have seen similar - while still different - compile problems once and
> had to make small changes to the code, but my recent compile tree does not
> contain such fixes, that means they have been fixed in the cvs repository.
> 
> I think most of gcc-3.2-related issues have been sorted out,
> at least in the development branch, or I am extremely lucky :-)


Ok thanks for the information.
I'll be trying out a cvs version then, and see how it goes.
I assume I only need to download coda from cvs, and not lwp, rpc2 and rvm,
right?


> > gcc-3.2-2mdk
> > gcc-c++-3.2-2mdk
> > glibc-2.2.5-16mdk
> > kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk
> 
> My setup is (all compiled from source) :
> Linux 2.4.19
> gcc-3.2
> compile time glibc 2.2.4 or 2.2.5 (unsure)
> coda runtime glibc 2.2.5
> 
> In other words, for your question about future Coda versions, it should be
> ok to compile with 3.2.
> Any incompatibility with 3.2 if not a gcc bug (that means - when Coda
> really violates C specification) is essentially a Coda bug and as such
> will be fixed surely.
> 
> > The message I got was that even if the build errors are fixed, there
> > might be other problems which could cause data corruption.
> 
> Sure, there is no safety in this world :-/ but 3.2 looks much better that
> 3.1, and I think Jan has fixed a lot in Coda since that.



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