Re: [Dri-users] ATI Radeon/Redhat 7.2 problems

[Kenton G. <kgr...@co...>]

That is what I thought (actually I thought it was my 2.96 compiler).  I 
then tried with gcc3 and gcc2.95 both with the same results.

Ken

Ben O'Shea wrote:

>i think this problem is the loader not being able to handle some new gcc
>3.x related stuff...
>
>On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Kenton Groombridge wrote:
>
>>Woohoo, I get to answer one.
>>
>>Honestly I am not sure why we have this problem, but others seem not to. 
>> I asked this question ages ago here and in the newsgroups and never got 
>>a response.
>>
>>I finally found it.  Here is what I found somewhere on the Internet. 
>> Don't remember the author, but it is accurate.  I edited my host.def 
>>file and added the -fno-merge-constants and it worked.  There seem to 
>>only be a couple folks affected by it and it is us.  I am using a highly 
>>hacked Mandrake 8.1 as my distro.
>>
>>I used to compile the DRI-CVS tree all the time without a problem.  One 
>>day it compiled but gave me those .LC errors.  It has done it ever 
>>since.  I would really like to know why only a few of us are affected.
>>
>>BTW, what kind of CPU do you have?  I have a 1 GHz Athlon and am only 
>>able to get slightly over 900 fps.  Not bad, but a friends system (about 
>>the same as mine) has a nVidia card (GeForce2 based) and he gets 2200 
>>fps.  My next card will definately be an nVidia based card.
>>
>>Ken
>>
>>
>>
>>XFree86 modules need to be compiled with -fno-merge-constants
>>because the XFree86 module loader does not yet understand the two
>>new ELF sections that are created when the merge-constants option
>>is used (default).
>>
>>
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