Messages in this thread | | | From | "Christian Stuke" <> | Subject | Re: Good luck when RedHat 7.0 comes out (was RE: test5 oops afterkswapd)... | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:05:27 +0200 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jes Sorensen" <jes@linuxcare.com> To: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 5:19 PM Subject: Re: Good luck when RedHat 7.0 comes out (was RE: test5 oops afterkswapd)...
> >>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes: > > Matthias> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, jeff@ntcor.com wrote: > >> Keep in mind that Rawhide (and 7.0beta probably) uses GCC 2.96. So > >> if any of the below problems are bugs in the GCC compiler I would > >> suggest we make the kernel work around those problems or > >> *Everybody* that goes to 7.0 is going to freak out like me. > > Matthias> I just checked the GCC home page, it's showing 2.95.2 as > Matthias> release. If you're using alpha software and it breaks, tough > Matthias> luck. > > Thats totally irrelevant, gcc-2.95.2 whether it's considered a release > or not is unable to compile the 2.2.x kernels - well known issue that > will not get fixed. One should not do that it's as simple as that.
gcc 2.95.2 compiles the 2.2.x kernel ok. (2.2.14 to 2.2.16) I personally use it for my home systems for moth and it has yet to fail on me. If I recall correctly SuSE Linux 6.4 and FreeBSD 4.0 uses 2.95.2 also.
> Jes
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