Re: compiling 2.4.20

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Lars Oeschey <extern.lars.oeschey@audi.de> writes:

> Am Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2003 14:55 schrieb Falk Hueffner:
> 
> > 2.4.20 has serious bugs on Alpha, you should rather use 2.4.19 or
> > 2.4.21.
> 
> I upgraded now to 3.3 since I found a similar answer somewhere on the 
> net. The compile failed again somewhere else though, but I'll try 
> 2.4.21 then first (the odd numbers were the stable ones?).

They're all supposed to be stable, only for 2.4.20 an Alpha specific
bug was introduced close to release... (it was fixed shortly after in
the -pre21 sub-releases, though).

> Do I only need the kernel-source package? I saw some kernel-header
> packages too...

You don't need them for compiling kernels (I think).

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	Falk