On Wednesday 30 October 2002 10:55 am, you is done writ:
> I have attempted to compile rpms for 7.3 using the files in compat-gcc
> rpms
> However after using CC=gcc296 CXX=g++296
To quote an email I just had from a friend of mine, in response to problems I
had trying to compile the 2.4.19 kernel:
>Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, there's your problem right there.
>
> Don't use the brain-damaged 2.96. Even Red Hat didn't compile its 7.x
> kernels with gcc 2.96, that's why they ship kgcc. (Hack the makefile, tell
> it to use kgcc as its compiler. Or better yet, rm /usr/bin/gcc and ln -s
> /usr/bin/kgcc /usr/bin/gcc). 2.96 is known to miscompile a ton of other
> stuff, it's just the kernel is the most obvious and least forgving.
>
> Technically speaking, there IS no gcc 2.96, that's the name Red Hat gave to
> a damaged snapshot out of the gcc unstable tree from a year back. They
> needed some internationalization support that wasn't available yet in order
> to sell a japanese version of Red Hat. There was a huge flamewar over this
> back in the day.
>
> Red Hat 8 ships with GCC 3.2, finally resolving this modulo the leftover
> hard feelings.
Hope this helps.
mark
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