Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5 | From | Edward Muller <> | Date | 04 Dec 2001 16:03:17 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 15:20, Alan Cox wrote: > > > So anyone perfectly happy with an older distro that didn't > > > ship python2-and-whatever-else gets screwed when they want to > > > build a newer kernel. Nice. > > > > That's been the case all along, sans python2. Newer kernels need newer > > tools. That's always been the case. > > Not during stable releases. In fact we've jumped through hoops several times > to try and keep egcs built kernels working
Agreed. I spoke a little too broadly. But newer 'trees' (2.0 to 2.2 to 2.4 to 2.5) has always (IIRC) needed newer tools.
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