Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:27:58 +0400 | From | Solar Designer <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.34-pre1 |
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> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:48:14AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote: > > We're about to migrate Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) from its current gcc > > 3.4.5 (which we used in our 2.0 release) to gcc 4+ - and we'd rather > > _not_ migrate to Linux 2.6 at the same time, if we can. We'd be more > > comfortable migrating to Linux 2.6 a few months later.
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:11:15AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Considering that it's really easy to compile the kernel with a different > compiler than the userland,
We want our end users to be able to rebuild all of Owl (including the kernel) from source using only tools that are a part of Owl, yet we do not want to be providing multiple versions of gcc (or of any other package, for that matter). We've been successful at not providing multiple versions of development tools and libraries so far - keeping the system small and clean, yet fully self-rebuildable.
> do you _really_ want to use such a > relatively untested kernel/gcc combination for a server platform?
I expect that we will fully move to Linux 2.6 before our next release, but being able to move to gcc 4+ in Owl-current first simplifies our development process. (And, yes, we've got end users of Owl-current who will be recompiling kernels.)
Also, I expect this kernel/gcc combination to receive quite some testing soon, if/once it becomes supported.
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