On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Jonathan Marchand wrote: > Hi, > > I'am running an amd64 laptop and I would like to build a kernel with > gcc-.34 like the kernel images avaible on the internet. Therefore, it > seems I can only build kernel with gcc-3.3. I did change some > variables in the kernel-source's Makefile and the environment > variables, but the resulting kernel is always compiled with gcc-3.3. I > compile the kernel the Debian way with make-kpkg. Is there any options > to add with make-kpkg to use gcc-3.4? Why the kernel-source package > isn't configured to be build by defauly with gcc-3.4, it seems the > more natural, or it is on purpose? > I'm sorry I'm pretty unknowledgeable with compiling kernels and the > different versions of gcc but any informations will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks > > Jonathan
Hi Jonathan, Here's what I do: before compiling, change the /usr/bin/gcc symlink from /usr/bin/gcc-3.3 to /usr/bin/gcc-3.4. Afterwards, change it back. Goswin's solution is more worthy of a true geek of course ;-) Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
