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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Hi,
Last week I brought up an issue about compiling xfree86 using gcc3. I 
think it was decided that xfree86 was to be compiled using gcc2. Is this 
true?

Then to compile xfree86 using gcc2 I needed to create 
/var/lib/sorcery/codex/test/x11/xfree/USEGCC2. I did so but the 
compilation still fails because cast is trying to use gcc3 optimization 
flags with gcc2. I had done a sorcery update-system before this. I also 
mentioned that the optimization flags were repeated when compiling 
xfree86 using gcc3. The only way I could get xfree86 to compile using 
gcc2 with the correct optimization flags was to modify the 
/var/lib/archspecs/ia32/intel/pentium4 file to only have "march=i686"

I THINK the problem has to do with the CONFIGURE script for xfree86, 
specifically the "generate_host_def"  function. Where it generates the 
host.def file to include the optimization flags using $CFLAGS. But I 
have a feeling it doesn't take the USEGCC2 into account when it 
generates the file and uses the gcc3 optimization flags. So host.def has 
set the gcc3 flags even though it is using gcc2 and cast is setting the 
gcc2 optimization flags, I think this explains the repeated optimization 
flags.

I hope I am correct.

I am still trying to iron out some other issues with installing SGML 
beta2. I will report these once I have understood them some more.

Regards, Duane.