On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:12:27AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

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> 
> There is an untraced bug in the compiler somewhere, which means that 
> egcs-1.2 (which is the default compiler) does not build one of the X 
> libraries correctly.
> 
> Try getting a pre-built set of libraries, or install gcc-2.95.2 and use 
> that.
> 

That turned out to be completely true !!!
After compiling X with gcc-2.95.2 the windows are being displayed
correctly.


fw