Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Sep 2000 16:46:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux 2.2.18pre13 |
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Hello Alexander ,
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I personally dislike the 'autmatically detect kgcc and gcc272' patches a lot, > > and I think we should put a sentence like > > If you are using a distribution that ships with a default C compiler that is > > not able to compile linux kernel, use make CC=kgcc (redhat) or CC=gcc272 > > (debian) instead. > > into README, instead of fiddling around with a command/program with lots of > > different and incompatible versions.
> Forget distributions. There is a very, very good reason to have the choice > of cc used in kernel builds uncoupled from the userland one. IMO kgcc is a > misnomer (kcc would be better), but the idea is sound - you don't want to > deal with the miscompiled kernel while you are porting the userland to > another version of compiler. You also don't want it once you've are done > with the userland stuff - level of dependency on gcc details is much > higher in case of the kernel. Where does the idea that the kernel 'needs' a special compiler come from ? I have been under the impression that that is just what we were trying to get away from . I am reminded of other os's that required their propritary compiler in order to create a os image . Please let us not travel that road . Tia , JimL +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
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