Subject: Re: usr.bin/rwho/Makefile, workaround PR#8364
To: None <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: source-changes
Date: 03/01/2000 13:54:26
> > o Workaround for vax gcc optimizer problems
>
> Well, if we're doing Makefile modifications for optimizer
> problems, can we _please_ get the following into
> usr.sbin/rwho/Makefile ?  There's been an optimizer bug ever
> since the import of egcs that causes rwho -a to yield bogus
> negative values for the hours.  The bug is present still on
> both the netbsd-1-4 branch and in netbsd-current...
>
> I've had a pr open (port-i386/8364) for a few months now about
> the bug itself, but for now, it would save a lot of annoyance
> for me to be able to install a release without having to go
> back and recompile rwho, which, in a computer lab environment,
> tends to be used a lot...

Done.  Since you're not a developer, I took the responsibility
for the patch (that's why you'll see "requested by he").

CHANGES-1.4.2 entry:

usr.bin/rwho/Makefile                           patch

  Avoid optimizer bug in egcs for i386, works around PR#8364.

Regards,

- H=E5vard