Thanks ya all for ya effort in helping me. I found that editing the makefile in the tld of the kernel code tree and changing the two references of gcc to gcc3 works well. And just deleting the gcc file and replacing it with a symlink to gcc3 also works but that messes up the rpm system thing a bit.
I have had the machine up for a day so far with linux-2.4.18 compiled under gcc3, and no crash yet. I am still using gnome, for now as a matter of elimination though. If it crashes again I will go to KDE3, (and start a lot of flaming :-).

Regards, and thanks for your help again.
Karl Bowden


On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 08:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have installed the gcc3 rpms from ximian, but it only puts a gcc3 in the /usr/bin dir. how do i get gcc3 to be the default? can i just delete the gcc file and replace it with a symlink to gcc3?

Regards,
Karl Bowden


>On  8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote:
>>  Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96). 
>
>Why not?  It's the default version of gcc on RH7.2, and I did nothing
>special for building any of the 2 dozen or so kernels I've experimented
>with over the last few months, with no compiler-ish problems.  (Just
>hardware, and scsi error handling problems.)  Unless the kernel build
>is set up to use a special version of gcc squirrelled away specially
>for the purpose, by the makefiles?
>
>luke


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