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 ??powerpc	Which compiler should I use for powerpc?
 
-{GK} You want to use egcs 1.0.1 or later (together with the right versions
+{GK} You want to use egcs 1.1 or later (together with the right versions
 of all the other tools, of course).
 
-In fact, egcs 1.0.1 has a serious bug that prevents a clean make, relating
-to switch statement folding.  It also causes the resulting shared libraries
-to use more memory than they should.  There is a patch at:
+In fact, egcs 1.1 has a bug that causes linuxthreads to be
+miscompiled, resulting in segmentation faults when using condition
+variables.  There is a temporary patch at:
 
-<http://discus.anu.edu.au/~geoffk/egcs-1.0.1-geoffk.diff>
-
-Later versions of egcs may fix these problems.
+<http://discus.anu.edu.au/~geoffk/egcs-3.diff>
 
+Later versions of egcs may fix this problem.
 
 ??	Do I need some more things to compile GNU C Library?