Re: [SLUG] GCC debian question

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:54:49 +1000
Alexander Samad <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What is the right version of gcc to compile the kernel with.
> 
> I have debian testing installed and have noticed the moved towards
> gcc-3.3 but the doc for the kernel still mention 2.95.

Thats correct.

> I have successfuly built the kernel with 3.2 (by accident!)
> 
> What are other people using for their kernel 3.3 3.2 2.95 ???

I believe that it is possible to build a kernel with later compilers,
but if anything goes wrong and you want to mail the linux kernel
development list, they will not be willing to help unless you are
compiling with 2.95.X

At least with Debian its relatively easy to keep more than one compiler
on a machine. I currently have 2.95, 3.0 and 3.2. I should probably get 
rid of 3.0. In fact I'm going to do that right now :-)

Erik
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