Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:22:04 -0500 (EST) | From | linux-os <> | Subject | Re: support of older compilers |
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 07:41 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281572 Jul 30 1995 zImage-1.2.11 >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277476 Apr 1 1995 zImage-1.2.2 >> >> Ok, you da man. What do you use it for? Or is it just lying around for >> nostalgic reasons? > > some people are just a bit stubborn in accepting elf binaries perhaps ;)
Most of the tools on this machine were built on this machine:
Script started on Fri 05 Nov 2004 11:02:59 AM EST # ls -la total 112 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 5 11:02 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Oct 22 1997 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7433 Aug 23 1994 lpr.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16776 Oct 22 1997 lpr.c -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16614 Jul 29 1996 lpr.c~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16712 Nov 24 1996 lpr.c.orig -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31948 Dec 17 1993 lpr.termios -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Oct 25 1994 Makefile # pwd /home/project/usr/src/lpr-5.9/lpr # exit exit Script done on Fri 05 Nov 2004 11:03:12 AM EST
I would modify the BSD source so it would compile and run on Linux, then I would submit it. You can see, above that `lpr` had to get modified in 1996 to accommodate some changes (probably GCC changes).
I save all this to show that there isn't a GNU/Linux, really a BSD/Linux.
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