> I tried to compile 6.4 with latest egcs and have experienced
> problem to compile several files on my Linux x86 box.
I've had success compiling with egcs on Linux in the recent past, using
this version from rpms:
Reading specs from
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1/egcs-2.91.57/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 release)
I don't use this compiler on a regular basis yet, since it has
undesirable rounding behavior for some floating point operations (e.g.
lots of trailing "9"s in some output which are not present in gcc-2.7.x
which screws up the Postgres regression tests).
But I can not recall having any fundamental compilation problems, and
certainly did not have to rewrite assembler code as suggested by your
url reference.
Send some specific examples of problems you are seeing and I can try
them on my libc5 machine.
- Tom