From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 18 19:34:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29316 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com ([203.8.14.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29306 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.hilink.com.au [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA01909; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:31:22 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808181931.TAA01909@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: chad@dcfinc.com cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), kdulzo@enteract.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: "" In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:45:02 MST." <199808190145.SAA02887@freebie.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:31:22 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > The fix, drop the optimization to -O, at least for sh. I don't > > > know why, noone had an answer to this for me either. make world worked > > > -O2 before, and -O3 broke on groff; now -O3 compiles, but sh is broken :) > > > > Optimiser settings above -O have been known to be broken for literally > > years. Don't use them. > > How about someone fixes the compiler, then? Go for it. See 'egcs' and 'gcc-2.8' for some examples of how easy it might be. Seriously; we don't maintain gcc. Feel free to pester the maintainers about this. Meanwhile, simply be advised that optimiser levels above -O are known to cause problems, and don't yield any significant performance benefits. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message