Thinus Viljoen wrote: > Hi > > I want to install an older version of gcc, and see if it solves some of my > problems. I have the following questions: > > 1. Which version of gcc should I install? I saw somewhere that >=3.2 is > recommended - is the latest 3.x version (3.4.6) the best, or is an earlier > version perhaps better? (Which version are you using?)
I have a gcc-3.3.6 here (debian) for testing under 2.4 kernels. I cannot comment on 3.3 vs. 3.4. > > 2. Do I need to recompile everything with the newly installed gcc (patched > kernel, RTAI, RTnet)? Definitely yes (wrt/ kernel code). > > 3. From the RTAI user manual it seems that the re-compilation process for > RTAI consists of running > "make reconfig CC=/my/favorite/c/compiler", and then "make". Is the process > for RTnet and the patched kernel identical? Or should I simply change a > symlink for gcc somewhere and re-build all? "make oldconfig CC=gcc-whatever" + "make" should do it. If you want to be really sure, run a "make clean" first. Jan
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