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Re: [PORTS] Patch to remove -Dalpha for Alphas...

Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu> — 1998-04-28T23:49:01Z

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Peter Stockwell wrote:

> Hi Ryan
> 
> So far so good.  For some reason, the DEC/alpha patch didn't recognize
> your diffs and rather than fathom that out, I installed them manually.

	They were unified diffs, and I have known some versions of patch
to not like those. 

> Compilation (gcc 2.7.2.3) completed just fine.  A silly configuration
> problem has caused a delay in trying the regression tests for the
> patched version, but I would expect it to complete OK.  I'll be in
> touch to confirm this.
....
> I have now run the regression tests on the retrieved snapshot and
> achieved the same result as before (time failures, others trivial), so
> it looks successful.  I have done the build using gcc (2.7.2.3) - I
> have not tried to use the native cc.

	Good! At least I have not broken anything major! I think that
should prove that my patches don't break Dec/Alpha. Thanks for your help. 

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