On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:00:14PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I am really confused over the different compilers wich seems to be > together. > > Does EGCS exist today? or is it included in GCC. Many software recomments > to be compiled with egcs (???). I have GCC 2.95.2 installed on my machine > wich seems to be the latest version of GCC. The kernel doc tells me that i > > have to use GCC 2.72 (???) and only for secondary choice the latest GCC!
The egcs and gcc projects merged some time ago, actually egcs became gcc 2.9X. I use gcc 2.95.2 to compile my kernels without any problems, so it's save to use your gcc compiler to compile your kernel. The latest gcc sersion 2.96 ( which is the default compiler on Red Hat 7 ) has a few bugs and isn't able to compile the Linux kernel. This version of gcc is only a pre-release therefor I wouldn't use this version at all... regards, -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://staf.digibel.org
