Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

[Alan Cox]

> my convenience matters as much as that of the users.  I don't want to use
> #ifdefs, I want it to die explosively and verbosely informatively.  make isn't
> the most natural language for that, but I am sure Yura can find a way.

Run a small shell check and let it fail if the shell stuff errors.

The fragment you want is

if [ -e /bin/rpm ]; then
        X=`rpm -q gcc`
        if [ "$X" = "gcc-2.96-54" ]; then
                echo "*** GCC 2.96-54 will miscompile Reiserfs. Please update your compiler"
                echo "See http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2000-132.html"
                exit 255
        fi
fi

> Please delay shipping the 3.0 CVS branch on RedHat for a while.:-)  Sorry, I
> couldn't resist.

Grin. gcc 3.0 is going to be just as much fun Im sure, but finally should give
everyone a stable C and more importantly C++ base including the LSB standards.

Alan