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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Sat Apr  5 09:37:42 PST 2003</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>To save you the time of checking up in the FAQ, read below.
  35 </I>&gt;<i>
  36 </I>&gt;<i>B.1. When I run &quot;make&quot;, I get an error message like &quot;missing separator&quot;,
  37 </I>&gt;<i>     &quot;Need an operator&quot;, &quot;Unexpected end of line seen&quot;, etc.
  38 </I>
  39      Just for the record, this is B.2.  B.1 reads as follows:
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  41 B.1. Red Hat says GCC 2.96 doesn't have bugs anymore [www.redhat.com]. Why
  42      don't you allow it to be used with Services?
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  44           Because, as Red Hat themselves admit (and just about anyone
  45           involved in Linux development can tell you), some releases of
  46           GCC 2.96 did have serious bugs in them, and I have personally
  47           verified that at least some releases of 2.96 fail to compile
  48           Services correctly. Since Red Hat, in one of their many stupid
  49           decisions, chose not to change the version string in the fixed
  50           releases, I have no way to tell whether a given release of GCC
  51           2.96 is a &quot;fixed&quot; one or not. Rather than have to wade through
  52           assembly listings for every case of a bad GCC release, I've
  53           chosen to disallow the use of GCC 2.96 entirely. The previous
  54           version of GCC, 2.95.3, is known to work correctly with
  55           Services, as are more recent versions (3.2 in particular);
  56           either downgrade or upgrade before compiling Services, or
  57           install from a binary distribution instead of the source code.
  58
  59           If you absolutely must compile Services using GCC 2.96, you can
  60           override the configure check with the -force-gcc-2.96 option.
  61           However, the author will not provide support for any problems
  62           which occur if you override this check.
  63
  64           Incidentally, Services is believed to not have any of the
  65           programming bugs Red Hat discusses on the page referenced
  66           above. The one exception is pointer aliasing optimization (the
  67           &quot;int i; *(float *)&amp;i = 2.0;&quot; example), which is a bug in the C
  68           standard, and is disabled when compiling Services anyway.
  69
  70   --Andrew Church
  71     <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">achurch at achurch.org</A>
  72     <A HREF="http://achurch.org/">http://achurch.org/</A>
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