[Bf-committers] Linux Building

[Meino Christian Cramer]

From: jsmith@kcco.com
Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Linux Building
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:14:17 -0500

> Quoting Michel Selten <michel.s@home.nl>:
> 
> > hmm, this is strange. I'm using gcc 3.2.2 on a Gentoo system. No problem
> > here. So there must be something else that's causing the problem.
> > You're buildingg on a Athlon right? Maybe gcc is causing a problem in
> > optimizing code for the Athlon. I have a Pentium myself.
> > But then again, you say KDE is running fine. Hrm, strange.
> > 
> > Although I couldn't be of much help, at least you know now that there
> > are successful reports building with gcc 3.2.2 :)
> 
> I too am using Gentoo, on a dual Athlon MP, and Blender works fine (until I run
> into the "rendering with ATI Radeon causes a crash" bug, but that is a DRI issue
> with xfree for which a patch at bugs.xfree.org exists [and which I haven't yet
> had a chance to apply to xfree 4.3]).  

  Can you please give me a link to that patch ?

  I entered that site but only found the bugzilla-machine related
  things!

  Thank you very much !
  Meino

> As another datapoint, I compile with CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe
> -fomit-frame-pointer".  Perhaps the core dumps being experienced by others
> relate to using an older version of gcc?
> regards,
> 
> Jean.
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