Subject: Bug#4422: gcc bug?

From: Juha Heinanen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 20:09:49 +0300

Package: gcc
Version: 2.7.2-8

since i didn't find debian netperf package, i decided to compile netperf
myself.
however, when compiling the first file, i got

lohi:/usr/src/netperf-2.1pl1# make
cc -O -Ae -DDEBUG_LOG_FILE="\"/tmp/netperf.debug\"" -DUSE_LOOPER    -c
netperf.c -o netperf.o
*Initialization*:1: missing token-sequence in `#assert'
make: *** [netperf.o] Error 1

this looks like an error in the gcc system itself, since it didn't give
any
error message related to the file being compiled.

my environment should otherwise be ok, since, for example, the kernel
compiles without problems.

i'm using debian 1.1-fixed, kernel version 2.0.18.

-- juha

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From: David Engel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:35:50 -0500 (CDT)

> make: *** [netperf.o] Error 1

Will you please reduce the problem down to a small, reproducable test
case.  There's not much I can do with this little information.

David
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David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
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(214) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081

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From: Juha Heinanen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 22:07:11 +0300

i don't know how to reproduce this error, except by downloading

ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/benchmarks/netperf/netperf-2.1pl1.tar.gz

unpacking the tar archive and typing 'make'.

-- juha