On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:58:13PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:08:40PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Le Saturday 15 March 2003 18:14, Avleen Vig a ?crit : > > > I don't expect HUGE problems with making world, but am I asking for > > > trouble if I make a new kernel with GCC3.2? > > > > good luck to you ! > > > > just have a look at the differences in the source code between current > > and stable to enable the compilation of current with gcc3 (FriBi -Stable > > will not compile with anything other than gcc 2.95) > > > > TfH > > I assume the OP installed gcc3 from ports...in this case the gcc2.95 system > compiler will still be installed as well.
True.
> I'm pretty sure that a kernel
> build will explicitly use the system compiler,
True.
> and buildworld/buildkernel
> certainly do (I believe buildworld actually builds a fresh copy of gcc2.95
> then uses that to build the rest of the system).
True.
> As Thierry says, trying to build -stable with gcc3 is probably doomed to
> failure.
Correct, but irrelevant, as shown above. The buildworld/buildkernel
process will use the system gcc 2.95.x, and everything will go smoothly.
G'luck,
Peter
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