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Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Andrew Dodd <atd7 AT cornell DOT edu>
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Martin Kahlert wrote:

>    Questions on PentiumGCC
> 
>    If you have any problems installing gcc using gcc 
>    or getting rid of gcc, there are a number of
>    possibilities for you: 
> 
>    -(Read the FAQ. o.k. i did that)
>    -Write an e-mail to the mailing list, describing your problem
>     (and clearly stating that you
>     are NOT on the mailing list, so that people can send the answer
>     directly to you) 
Well, while people don't seem to think this list should be for subscribers
only, something really should be done about the fact that there have been
around 10-20 bug reports for the exact same bug every day...

Does a list archive exist?  In which case the steps should be, IMHO:

1)  Read the FAQ.
2)  Look at the archive to see if the bug has been reported already.
3)  Then write to the list.

And, of course, the patch should be taken down, or at least marked as
"severely broken, no one can compile this" on the PGCC page.

I know someone mentioned that one can just simply not bother with stage-x
installation, just use the binaries produced by the initial stage:  Since
those binaries are generating internal errors, then they're almost surely
going to have problems on other code in addition to the PGCC code
itself...

That PGCC-1.1.2 patch probably should have been marked as an alpha or
beta. :)

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