gcc 3.3.3 builds "corrupt" lesstif-0.93.94

[Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)]

> From:  Harold L Hunt II
>
> The lesstif package was last built and released (0.93.94) with gcc-3.3.1 
> (or earlier, not sure).  Performing a rebuild of the lesstif source as 
> released (or any lesstif version after that) results in a good build, 
> but one that gives a "status access violation" *immediately* upon being 
> loaded; that is, DllMain is not even correctly called.
>
> Has anyone else ran into libraries that fail to build correctly under 
> gcc-3.3.3?  How close are we to another gcc release for Cygwin (I'm 
> hoping this just goes away)?
>
> Harold

I have seen this with a few packages I have tried to build recently.
One case I was looking at this week was octave with a home build shared 
libstdc++.  This used to work for me.

I haven't investigated further.

	David


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