Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:10:48 +0000 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Which gcc version? |
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At 15:30 23/11/01, =?iso-8859-2?B?R+Fib3IgTOlu4XJ0?= wrote: >On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:14:48PM +0000, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > war wrote: > > > > > > #1) The compiler from redhat (gcc-2.96) is not an official GNU release. > > > #2) http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/kernel-newsflash.html/ > > > "the reccomend compiler is now gcc-2.95.3, rather than gcc-2.91.66" > > > > From Documentation/Changes in 2.4.15: > > > > The Red Hat gcc 2.96 compiler subtree can also be used to build this > > tree. > > You should ensure you use gcc-2.96-74 or later. gcc-2.96-54 will not > > build > > the kernel correctly. > >True, but as it's known, gcc-2.96 is NOT an official gcc release by the gcc >team. It was RedHat's fault to fetch a development CVS gcc snapshot and >release it as gcc 2.96 in RedHat distributions, while object format used by >2.96 is not compatible with 2.95 nor 3.0.x at least according information >can be found on site of gcc. It was very ROTFL RedHat to release kgcc to be >able to compile kernel. And these type of distributions are marked as even >enterprise-ready and likes by RedHat :) Sorry for the flame, but IMHO it's >very funny :) [Also, while developing MPlayer we had got problems with even >newer 2.96's, so we do not recommend it in the dox, and ./configure won't >able you to use 2.96 without a special configure switch ...]
Oh, I have to look at your configure.in for how you do that so I can add the opposite check to linux-ntfs and refuse to compile if gcc-2.96 or 3.x is NOT used. (-:
>But for being more serious: do newer gcc 2.96 versions have these type of >errors? I mean mainly incompatible object format ...
I don't know about that. All I can say is that since RedHat 7.0 and the updated gcc-2.96 (the first release was indeed broken) I have been using gcc-2.96 for everything and I haven't experienced any problems with it (compiling both kernels and user space code with it but YMMV as I don't compile that much user space code myself except for my own code which obviously works considering I write it for gcc-2.96...). I even installed gcc-2.96 on my SuSE 7.2 system and that has been happy with it, too.
Anton
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