Re: [Texmacs-dev] RE: Texmacs segfault

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> The gentoo guys closed the but with this motivation:
> 
> This package has proven to be very unreliable under GCC 3.2, and with
> any optimizations in general.  As such, it's being moved to an
> unsupported status. Issues with the package should be taken to the
> developing party www.texmacs.org.  The best solution to any problems has
> been, in the past, to disable optimizations. If a guaranteed, tried and
> tested cross-platform solution to optimization/segfault woes can be
> found, we will implement it.

This is crazy; we are not responsible for bugs in the g++ optimizer!
They could just stick to g++ 2.95.3 if g++ 3.2 is bugged.

> I'm happy with the static build for now.

In fact, I think that they did not compile g++ 3.2 well;
I managed to build an optimized version of TeXmacs with g++ 3.2
without any problems...