On Sun 21 Jul, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Re.:
> > Compiling imagemagick is not easy, because gcc2.6.3 and gcc2.7.2 are not able to
> > compile the stuff. Both abort the compilation, but every compiler at a different
> > point of compilation.
> 
> I guess I must have been lucky in comparison! I just had to go down
> from O3 to O1 for the display.c file, still sticking with gcc 2.7.2. I
> suppose my main reason for posting is that I still don't trust the
> compiler - all that business with random error messages when running
> out of memory, and getting gnuplot_x11 to work without actually having
> found an error within the code, just changing a global to a local
> variable fixed the bus error, but I don't see a reason for having done
> it. I just wonder whether fixes are being applied to the 1.1beta
> compiler sets, or only to the 1.2alpha comp set, or at all!
> 
> > I think within the next 4 weeks I will do the upload again, last time I did it, my
> > X-server died during the upload :-((
> 
> If you like I can put up what I've got (this is with jpeg, tiff, png,
> zlib) though I might try to add mpeg and this evening (tiff was tricky
> too), and at the moment I'm stuck with a segmentation fault in povray -
> hence doubts about compiler!


I've also had this type of problem. One file in the samba set will not
compile with the any -O flags. I built the set with -O3 for most files and
the remianing file without any optimisation.

I can supply the full error message if required.

I too still have doubts about the compiler.

Cheers,
Scott

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Scott Ashcroft            ashcroft@campus.bt.com