Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2000 01:03:39 +0200 | From | Jan Dvorak <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.2.17 with RedHat 7 Problem ! |
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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 05:43:30PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Due to bugs in the Linux kernel, it may only be compiled by certain versions > of GCC. GCC 2.7.2 or EGCS 1.1.2 are only supported compilers > (linux/Documentation/Changes). > > Unfortunately, 2.7.2 and EGCS 1.1.2 are really crappy C++ compilers so many > distributions are beginning to ship GCC 2.95 and later. Those distributions > typically include an alternative gcc for compiling the kernel. RedHat has > kgcc, and you should compile the kernel with that
I am using gcc 2.95.2 from its release, and i doesn't encounter any problems on kernel compilation. Yes, i saw compiling problems on mailing lists, but i think, that gcc 2.95.2 should be used widely as kernel compiler. It's better than forcing users to have old 2.7.2.3 (even 2.95.2 is now year old), or to have 2 compilers - one for 'normal' programs, second for compiling kernel. It's more stable than gcc 2.95(.1), much more stable than pgcc,*cc, and its millenia far from gcc 2.96 snapshot. It will be nice to point in Changes *explicitly*, that gcc 2.96 will not work, that gcc 2.95.2 will work in most cases, and if it will not (or if error in runtime), try to use egcs-whatever or gcc 2.7.2.*. Gcc 2.95.2 (in fact anything > 2.7.2.3) is there compared as equal to pgcc, which is unfair.
Jan Dvorak <johnydog@go.cz>
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