Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 12:00:59 -0400 | From | John Cowan <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:51:28AM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > >>Jes Sorensen wrote: >> >> >>>Telling them to install an updated gcc for kernel compilation >>>is a necessary evil, which can easily be done without disturbing the >>>rest of the system. Updating the system's python installation is not a >>>reasonable request. >>> >> >>Au contraire. It is very reasonable to have both python and python2 >>installed. Having two different gcc versions installed is a big pain >>in the arse. >> > > Fump. Some distributions do even come with two gcc's out of the box. > With the whole egcs and gcc2.95 (dunno about 3.0) you can even share > the compiler driver if you want.
Yes, I should have limited myself to pre-egcs versions.
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