On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:20:24PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Collins wrote: > > > For now I just removed that check from init/main.c. > > good idea :) > > > > > For the long term, gcc-3.3 doesn't build working kernels for me. > > I expected so... mine didn't boot. > > > Maybe one day it will, but when it does, it wont provide > > sparc64-linux-gcc, it will provide just plain gcc, since the sparc64 > > kernel Makefiles already check if gcc is capable of 64bit kernel builds. > > mmmm strange is that taking a vanilla kernel, make menuconfig, make > vmlinux was still complaining about sparc64-linux-gcc command not found.
That's because "gcc" does not point to a compiler that is 64bit capable. The sparc64 makefiles have no idea what gcc-3.3 is. If /usr/bin/gcc was pointing to gcc-3.3, it would have picked it up. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
