Downgraded to gcc-2.95.3

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@911 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -22,10 +22,15 @@
 <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11h</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>man-pages-1.39</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.39</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>After much testing and discussing, it's been decided to
+downgrade to gcc-2.95.3 for the time being, until problems with the new
+gcc-3.0 version have been fixed.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed kernel patch for gcc-3.0 
 compilation</para></listitem>
 

chapter05/gcc-exp.xml

@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Command explanations</title>
 
-<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-3.0.patch:</userinput> This patch
-changes all instances of re_max_failures to re_max_failures2.
-re_max_failures is a variable used within Glibc and with static
-compiling this variable sometimes clashes between the package's 
-re_max_failures and the same variable in glibc. By renaming 
-re_max_failures in the package to re_max_failures2 we just tell the 
-package to use the second variable so that glibc won't be in the way.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>--enable-languages=c,c++:</userinput> This only builds the C
 and C++ compilers and not the other available compilers as they are, on

chapter06/gcc-inst.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ are available.</para>
 <para>Note: the build of other compilers is not tested by the people 
 who actively work on LFS.</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>mkdir ../gcc-build &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-&gcc-version;.patch &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+<userinput>mkdir ../gcc-build &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>cd ../gcc-build &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \</userinput>
 <userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--with-slibdir=/lib --enable-shared \</userinput>

index.xml

@@ -562,8 +562,8 @@
 <!ENTITY fileutils-compsize "dynamic-fileutils MB">
 <!ENTITY fileutils-time "dynamic-fileutils minutes">
 
-<!ENTITY gcc-version "3.0">
-<!ENTITY gcc-size "13,402 KB">
+<!ENTITY gcc-version "2.95.3">
+<!ENTITY gcc-size "9,618 KB">
 <!ENTITY gcc-patch-size "1 KB">
 <!ENTITY gcc-compsize-static "static-gcctotal MB">
 <!ENTITY gcc-time-static "static-gcc minutes">