[Alug]Advice re GCC 3.3 and Linux 2.4.20
After playing silly buggers with apt-get upgrade at the weekend I'm now running with Gnome 2.2 (which, apart from a few minor glitches, is running well and I quite like it :o) ). I also seen to have ended up with gcc 3.3 (was 2.95) which does worry me as it's not fully cleared for use with the Linux kernel source I use (2.4.20). I tried a kernel compile, which worked after I'd fixed 3 known issues but I'm a bit cagey about actually running the new kernel. Does anyone on the list run a Linux kernel compiled with gcc 3.3 and, if so, are there any problems? Regards, Keith ____________ No matter how many years you sit and meditate, you will never become anything special. Master Sawaki
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 12:35 PM, Keith Watson wrote:
Does anyone on the list run a Linux kernel compiled with gcc 3.3 and, if so, are there any problems?
Never had any problems at all to be honest. Though, I'm using Gentoo ;) As from #debian on freenode: [12:44] <apt> [2.4bug] look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194287 as it says there, gcc-3.3 cannot compile 2.4.x kernels (x <= 20), apt-get install gcc-3.2 or gcc-2.95 (preferred) then edit the top level Makefile before you make dep with: perl -pi.bak -e 's/gcc/gcc-2.95/' Makefile, or gcc-3.3 compiles 2.4.21-rc3 and up just fine. The latest kernel-source-2.4.20 packages are buildable with gcc 3.3 Hope that helps a bit as I am off for lunch! C
Craig wrote:
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 12:35 PM, Keith Watson wrote:
Does anyone on the list run a Linux kernel compiled with gcc 3.3 and, if so, are there any problems?
Never had any problems at all to be honest. Though, I'm using Gentoo ;)
Ditto. Cheers, Laurie. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com --------------------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:35:16PM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
I also seen to have ended up with gcc 3.3 (was 2.95) which does worry me as it's not fully cleared for use with the Linux kernel source I use (2.4.20). I tried a kernel compile, which worked after I'd fixed 3 known issues but I'm a bit cagey about actually running the new kernel.
Does anyone on the list run a Linux kernel compiled with gcc 3.3 and, if so, are there any problems?
I have done, (possibly am now on my home machine bit hard to tell though from work) the main problem I had was a 3rd party module wouldn't compile. Anyhow you should still have gcc 2.95 3.0 and 3.2 installed, in which case the real way to build a kernel would be to use make-kpkg and when building do MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-3.2" make-kpkg --revision=foo kernel_image as detailed in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz (or you could use things like gcc-2.95 or whatever. Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem
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