On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:56:01AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:55:42 +0300, Horms wrote: > > [...] > > > I need to do something about the fact that users go and > > grab kernel-source-2.4.27 and it doesn't compile with the > > default gcc any more. Here are three solutions I have thought. > > > > 1. Document this somewhere > > 2. Change the makefile to default to gcc-3.3 > > 3. Change the makefile to print out a nice error if gcc version >=4.0 > > > #3 would be my preference; however, you still have the problem that people > may attempt to compile a vanilla 2.4 kernel w/ gcc-3.3. IMO, this is > something that should be checked for by kernel-package; only allow certain > kernel versions to be compiled w/ certain versions of gcc, or even > override the version of gcc that it's compiling w/. That is, if 2.4.27 is > being compiled, kernel-package internally sets CC=gcc-3.3.
That still doesn't prevent users from falling into the trap of uncompiling the source, running configure, and then being presented with some entirely non-obvious errors becaus they are running the default GCC. I think it might be better to buld this logic into the Makefule of each kernel version, could you give some specific gcc/kernel version combinations that you are thinking about. Also, do you know if this varies from arch to arch? -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
