Re: [suse-sles-e] is mt a bit broken on SLES10?

From: Marcus Meissner (meissner_at_suse.de)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 11:45:16 CET


Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:45:16 +0100
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20061123104516.GA6666@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] is mt a bit broken on SLES10?

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:25:38AM +0100, Heiko Helmle wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote:
>
> >>
> >>Did anybody else stumble on this or is this a problem local to my
> >>test-installation?
> >
> >Can you check what it does with strace?
> >
>
>
> Sure - and it grew even stranger... apparently I can turn compression
> _on_ only with mt 2.6 and _off_ only with mt 2.5... ^^
>
> mt 2.6 always turns compression on regardless of parameter (except _no_
> paramater/read only)
> mt 2.5 can only turn compression off with 'datcompression 0'
>
> here's an strace of 2.6 failing to turn off datcompression:

Can you try compiling mt.c with the additional "-fno-strict-aliasing"
compile time option?

Ciao, Marcus

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