Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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[Completely incorrect rant snipped]
I wish you were right... Alas, I stand by my words : the attitude of a
minority of Debian developpers is on the line of "If it was hard to
write, it should be hard to use". Unfortunately, this minority has a
serious overlap with the *very good and active* category...
Case in point : I distinctly reember reading a convoluted thread in one
of the Debian lists about this /etc/alternative issue for gcc... Was I
drunk ? Or what ?
So you're supposed to "ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-3.3 /usr/bin/gcc # etc ...) ad
nauseam...
No, you're bloody well not. You're supposed to configure applications
to use the correct compiler if they need a particular version. For
qemu that's --cc. Not so hard, was it?
Didn't work last time I tried : you may do that at *configure* step. In
the case of a GCC4 kernel, you have to :
- configure and make with gcc 3.3 (--cc=gcc-3.3 goes into
config-host.mak. What the host-cc does is fairly well obscur to me (got
lost in the Makefile/source code), and was undocumented last time I
pored over Fabrice's pages).
- make clean in the kemu directory
- re-make with GCC 4 : this recompiles only the kqemu part.
If you can suggest a more steamlined way, I'd be happy to hear from it,
and even more happy to read it on Fabrice's pages or somewhere in the
documentation...
Emmanuel Charpentier
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