From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Julian Seward <Julian_Seward@muraroa.demon.co.uk>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: Julian_Seward@muraroa.demon.co.uk
Subject: egcs & bzip2
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 10:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <34899AD1.9FE2C90C@muraroa.demon.co.uk>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00368.html

Congratulations on egcs-1.0; looks good (and a lot of hard work :-)

I was pleased to see you using bzip2 to distribute it.  A couple
of small things, re your page
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/index.html:

-- Perhaps put a link to http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk
   where people can pick up pre-compiled versions?  Or mirror
   them yourself?  Saves people the hassle of compiling it,
   at least for some platforms.

-- I was alarmed to read: "gcc-2.7 for linux will mis-compile bzip2 
   if you use the optimizer; make sure to turn off the optimizer when
   building bzip2 with gcc-2.7."

   Can you be a little more specific?  Is this gcc-2.7.0, or 2.7.X, or
   what?  I've bzip2'd several thousand MB on x86-linux with 2.7.2 
   with no problems at all.  I presume it works ok on egcs-1.0 :-)

Thanks!

J