Re: pkgsrc on DragonFly status

[Wade <waderr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/09/05, Wade <waderr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/09/05, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:16:52PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > > Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > >>I've done a native install now, and I still can't build X.org - is
> > > >>there a patch I should know about?
> > > >There's a bug in GCC 3.4 on release, which doesn't allow it to build
> > > >xorg. Just compile that specific package with gcc2.
> > >
> > > I think it's the other way around: our (FreeBSD) gcc2 has some optimizer
> > > bugs that don't occur with gcc34.
> >
> > I'm 100% sure that there is a bug with xorg and gcc34 on release :-)
> > This doesn't mean that gcc2 is perfect, when in doubt and compiling C,
> > try the other one :-)
> >
> > Joerg
> >
> 
> I'll give gcc34 a try then, I had used 2 in both cases previously.
> Thank you for the help :-)
> 

Hola! I'm running preview now and using gcc 3.4, everything works as
expected. :-) I imagine new users are going to be bit by this issue a
lot.. perhaps there should be a "pkgsrc and DragonFly 1.2" section on
the wiki.