Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:41:00 +0530 | From | Akula2 <> | Subject | Re: Multi kernel tree support on the same distro? |
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On 1/7/07, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > > There are some difficulties with gcc versions between linux-2.4 and linux-2.6, > > but I do not recall all of the details off of the top of my head. If I recall > > correctly, one of the issues is, linux-2.4 ?prefers? gcc-2.96, while newer > > linux-2.6 support/prefer gcc-3.? or greater.
That's correct about gcc-3.4.x & gcc-4.1.x about 2.6 tree support. This means 2.6 supports both gcc versions. Here are the binaries I do use:-
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3.i386.rpm http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-1.667.i686.rpm
Now issue remains with 2.4 tree. Is it possible to build/install gcc-4.1.x along with gcc-3.4.x? This is what am trying to figure by few tests on the FC3 base machine. Can we call this as backward compatibility?
Any inputs here is helpful :-)
> Hmm, I think you did it the *hard* way. Gcc has been supporting > multi-version for years. You just have to compile it with --suffix=-3.4 > or --suffix=4.1 to have a whole collection of gcc versions on your host. > If you don't want to recompile gcc, simply rename the binaries and you're > OK. When you build, you only have to do : > > $ make bzImage modules CC=gcc-3.4 > > I've been using it like this for years without problem. It's really > convenient, and it also allows you to easily compare output codes and > sizes between compilers.
I did understand this, thanks. I have one doubt: Imagine I have built/installed these:-
2.4.34 & 2.6.20 kernels has these gcc-3.4.x & gcc-4.1.x compilers built on say FC6 box. Now issue comes when I run an application. How does it understand which library use?
example: myArmWireless app. needs gcc-3.4.x, NOT gcc-2.6.x libs on say 2.4.34 kernel.
Will it take automatically? Or we need to pass args to target the gcc-3.4.x libs?
Hope you guys consider these (my) questions as Novice, because am trying to figure a design @ How-To build such multi kernel/gcc systems.
> Regards, > Willy
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