what went wrong?

Mon May 19 10:52:00 GMT 1997

Stephen Crowley wrote:
>> Just wondering but what did you guys do to screw up b18 so bad? The
> configure scripts that worked perfeclty with 17.1 wont work at all with
> b18, sometimes the script is supposed to wait for use input but it just
> keeps going and then it wont find files it creates in the /tmp dir, e.g. it
> creates a temp file to pass to gcc but gcc cant find the file, and also it
> goes into infinite recursion for some reason, keeps saying stack error or
> something.

I haven't seen problems like this when I've run configure scripts
using b18. It is true that if you run out of stack space, gcc becomes
rather unhappy. :-(
I also haven't seen a slowing in starting programs or in compiling
executables. In fact, I see a speed-up in compile times over
beta 17...
-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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