Bug 5930

Summary: Requires egcs to build
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Powertools Reporter: andrewem
Component: acuaAssignee: Tim Powers <timp>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 1999-11-13 00:39:25 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description andrewem 1999-10-13 23:51:18 UTC 
I understand that egcs produced better code than gcc for x86
at one time, but this was never true for all architectures
(example: gcc and egcs for ARM were always identical).
Since egcs has been merged back into gcc, more and more of
these special cased spec files are gonna be causing
headaches in the future as well.

The "CC=egcs" force is done a patch (uggh).  A possibly
better approach would be to do the following in the spec
file:

  if [ -e `type -p egcs` ] ; then \
    make CC=egcs ; \
  else \
    make ; \
  fi
Comment 1 Tim Powers 1999-10-20 16:10:59 UTC 
Thanks for the tip. We'll keep an eye out for this in the next
release.