Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2000 01:47:48 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux 2.2.18pre13 |
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On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:30:42PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > 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.
I have no problem with that although I didn't think about it yet. What I disklike is having magic in the Makefile to find the right compiler. Probably we could just put CC=kcc in the Makefile and everyone would have to arrange it right. (This is also a good way to make the newbies the documentation ;))
Christoph
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