Subject: huge files
To: None <leo@marco.de>
From: Julian H Stacey <Julian.H.Stacey@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
List: port-pc532
Date: 09/22/1994 16:02:03
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I found out what caused the 4gb file problem on my system. It's not
> gcc-2.6.0 but it's me installing gcc-2.4.5 by accident
> (called "Julian's Syndrom" :-).
> 
>	Matthias

Hmm I like the name, Stuart was wondering which of us saw it first ...
You loose Stuart, I'll never be as famous as Parkinson tho' ;-)
I posted a preventative fix, but Phil may not have had time to add it,
here it is again:

*** old/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc2/cc1/Makefile	Wed Aug 17 21:51:56 1994
--- new/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc2/cc1/Makefile	Wed Aug 17 22:06:30 1994
***************
*** 6,9 ****
--- 6,19 ----
  SRCS=		c-parse.c c-lang.c c-lex.c c-pragma.c c-decl.c \
  		c-typeck.c c-convert.c c-aux-info.c c-iterate.c
  
+ .if ${MACHINE} == "pc532"
+ .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "ns32k"
+ install:
+ 	@echo "WARNING NetBSD uses gcc2.4.5, but its cc1 is no good for PC532"
+ 	@echo "Please manually make gcc-2.6.0 somewhere and install its cc1"
+ 	@# It's essential not to install a bad 2.4.5 cc1 as this generates
+ 	@# bad kernels (that create apparent 4 gig files etc).
+ .endif
+ .endif
+ 
  .include <../Makefile.cc1>

Julian Stacey <stacey@freefall.cdrom.com>