On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: > hello ian and other mandrake users, > > the openmosix docs (and the kernel docs too) say that for building kernels > i should use gcc 2.95.3. what's a good way to get 2.95* on a mandrake 9.1 > box? can i just download the RPM and install that (after first uninstalling > gcc 3.2*?). or are there special considerations? >
gcc packages make use of the 'alternatives' method which allows coexistence of multiple versions of the same package in one system. For a while there gcc-2.95 was included when 2.96 was horribly unstable, and they used that to make them coexist. I'm not sure if you can get the gcc-2.95 RPMS from an older mandrake over to a 9.1 box. Anyhow, don't believe what the kernel docs say that kernels should only be compiled with 2.95. I've got production systems (heavily loaded at that) running a custom mandrake compiled kernel which i compiled with gcc-3.2 :) here's my procinfo: Linux 2.4.19-1Q.3mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc 3.2 ) #2 Mon Aug 19 21:35:54 PHT 2002 1CPU That's from my current distro. My development version is being tested with the WOLK kernel (http://wolk.sourceforge.net) which has lots of goodies including drbd, grsec, ck-patches, aa-patches - also compiled with gcc-3.2. No sorry they didn't include the mosix patch :( -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
