On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Matthias Klose wrote: > Your argument that 2.91.66 is recommended to build 2.4 kernels is > partially wrong. At least for architecures alpha, powerpc, sparc, > mips, (hppa, s390, ...) it's not used (please correct me, if I am > wrong).
I won't, because you're apparently right :) > As Ray pointed out, gcc-2.95.3 seems to be capable to build usable 2.4 > kernels. Unfortunately this is not yet released (we use the test5 > release), so you won't get a recommendation from the kernel developers > to use an unreleased compiler. You're right again. And now it's my turn :) What's wrong with having another compiler version packaged (which, fortunatelly, is not just another compiler version like the one distributed wit redhat 7.0) I won't attemp to produce a list of other packages that do essecially tha same thing, but with a twist :) gcc-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) useful _now_. And by the way, in case anyone is interested, I've put the package out on our ftp-server: ftp://ftp.axis.se/pub/users/cii/ The credit goes to "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'm an amateur, but some day, when I get older, I wish to be a Debian developer :) I did not go by the Debian bible when I made the package, so that makes me a sinner :) I was so excited, I did not even put it through lintian. I guess that makes Ray a sinner too :) The package is built on a potato and installed on a potato. I used it to build a 2.4.2 kernel, which it did. Gracefully. I didn't get around to boot that kernel, yet. Planned for tomorrow :) Cheers, Cristian -- Murphy was an optimist.
