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From: sinclair@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,alt.sys.sun
Subject: CC compiling of X11 under SunOS 4.1
Summary: Compile X with cc -O?
Keywords: X cc -O 4.1 sunos
Message-ID: <6457@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Oct 90 12:25:38 GMT
Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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Disillusioned by the head-aches of compiling X11R4 with gcc,
I have decided to go back to good `ol `cc' for a new build
of X.

I have heard that with the right optimisation flags, `cc' can do
a better job than `gcc', but that Sun's optimiser was broken in some
places, and so I couldn't use the same optimisation level through-out
the whole of X.

Does any-one know the details of this, and whether anything has changed
with the advent of SunOS 4.1 & the latest fixes upto fix-17 for X?

This would be for all current flavours of Sun - 3, 4, and 386 (ack!).


Thanks tons,


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