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Re: Why upgrading sucks
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Why upgrading sucks |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Nov 2001 22:30:43 -0700 |
Once again, I meant to send my reply to the list originally...
Eric Blake wrote:
>
> Brian Jones wrote:
> >
> > I had to share my pain so I hope someone else finds this funny.
> > Tonight I updated to Red Hat 7.2 and afterwards applied the necessary
> > updates as noted by Red Hat. Then I created RPMs of the newest
> > libtool, automake, and autoconf and installed those. After twiddling
> > with the various files like updating ltmain.sh and adding depcomp
> > turns out that the Jikes I now have seg faults building our
> > source... so I'm going to sleep. I'll install gcc 3.0.2 soon (in a
> > standalone fashion away from my current gcc) and presumably won't have
> > to deal with the Jikes problem. Hopefully Eric Blake can shed some
> > light on this and offer a suggestion for what Jikes to use.
>
> Which version of jikes does RedHat 7.2 ship with? 1.15 has some known
> segfaults when compiling nested classes in a static context, which
> escaped through the release process. The patch that caused the problems
> has since been reverted from CVS, if you are willing to try
> bleeding-edge versions. Or, if you prefer a specific time, the
> ChangeLog shows that the regression was fixed on Oct 15; and I can
> verify that the Jikes CVS tree was stable and successfully compiled
> classpath on Oct 18.
>
> Otherwise, all I can say is stick to 1.14; although I haven't tried that
> version on classpath myself, it does not have the blatant problem with
> nested classes. The sad part is that I was release manager for 1.15
> back in September, but was not compiling Classpath at the time, or that
> regression might not have slipped through!
>
> :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/cvs/jikes (password anoncvs,
> module jikes)
>
> I feel your pain (sorry that I'm partly to blame).
>
> >
> > Brian
>
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