b31 multiple build failures on x86 Linux

[Andrew Haley]

Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 
> 
> Jeffrey Baker wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Kelly O'Hair <Kelly.Ohair at sun.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>>>> Second problem: the build dumped core in test_gamma with an error in
>>>> ciTypeFlow.hpp:395.  I filed this bug at sun.com with Review ID
>>>> 1299675.  I worked around this by exiting the test_gamma script early.
>>> Since you are using a newer gcc compiler, it's quite possible you have
>>> found a bug of some kind, in gcc or in hotspot or somewhere in between.
>>> You may want to see about trying a different gcc to isolate what the
>>> issue might be.
>>
>> What is the officially blessed compiler?  This one appears to be gcc
>> 4.2.3, but I have numerous other revisions of gcc kicking around,
>> including 4.1 and 4.2.
> 
> You won't like this, but it's 3.2.
> We get gcc from the Linux system, and unfortunately we haven't upgraded
> the official Linux systems for JDK7, yet.
> I know people have used gcc4, but I don't know what the exact version is.
> 
> Maybe someone from one of the linux distros and speak up on this topic??

We have used 4.1 and 4.3.  We don't much like 4.2 so we're not going to
use it.

Andrew.