Re: Another quiet question

Leif Sawyer wrote:
> My ECC Ram question went by without so much as a burp
on the list, who
> knows if this will make any waves, either...
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r2, HTB-3.4.4-1.00,
ssp-3.4.6-1.0,
> pie-8.7.9)
> 
> $ sudo emerge sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r2
> [snip]

I think the reason no-one responds to your posts are because
they are 
not structured in any methodical way. No sequence showing
how you've 
already tried to investigate the problem, just a post asking
for an 
answer, which doesn't get a lot of respect from people
who've taken time 
and effort to learn things already.
What more than this dump can you tell us about this error?
What have you 
already done to investigate it? what level of skill do you
have in this 
area? are we expected to fix it for you step by step or to
guide you to 
a resolution?


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Hamish Greig [mailto:hgreigbigpond.net.au] 
> I think the reason no-one responds to your posts are
because 
> they are not structured in any methodical way. No
sequence 
> showing how you've already tried to investigate the
problem, 
> just a post asking for an answer, which doesn't get a
lot of 
> respect from people who've taken time and effort to
learn 
> things already.

I'm sorry that my terseness offends your sensibilities. 
All
the information that I had available was in the post, i.e.,
gcc failed to build.

> What more than this dump can you tell us about this
error? 

it's reproducable.  it's not caused by OOM, but obviously
by
a build-level error, because certain objects that the
source
code thinks should be available, aren't.  Perhaps looking
at
the detail I provided a bit closer might reveal that fact,
in
an obvious sort of manner (i.e., an ld error)

> What have you already done to investigate it? what
level of 
> skill do you have in this area? are we expected to fix
it for 
> you step by step or to guide you to a resolution?

Since I'm neither a maintainer, nor a GCC developer, but
simply
a gentoo-sparc user, my job is to report the bugs that I
see.

If you are a developer or maintainer, one might questions
the
validity in your stance of attacking users for not
providing
the information that -you- feel is needed, instead of
simply
asking for additional detail.

It's no wonder the list is dry and gentoo is losing it's
path.
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