Re: Building OSKIT

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@cox.net>]

Michael Banck wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 04:02:33PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote:
>  
>
> > Has anyone tried to build OSKIT with the new build-essential update from
> > Debian?  I get the multi-line string literals error in i16_bios.h when I try
> > to make oskit.
> >    
>
> Are you using gcc-3.2 or gcc-3.3? Did this work fine last month with
> gcc-3.x?
>
> Anyway, http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Mach/BuildingOskitMach seems to
> recommend using gcc-2.95 as compiler for oskit:
>
> "The recommended versions of GCC are  
> For the OSKit
> GCC 2.95.X
>
> For GNUmach and MiG
> GCC 3.2"
>
> so I suggest you just install gcc-2.95 alongside the default compiler. 
>
> I never tried to build oskit with gcc-3.x I think (Well, I only tried it
> a couple of times anyway :)
>
> Michael
>
>
>  
I couldn't even get gcc prior to this week.  The strange thing is, is 
that I swear that the dist-upgrade that I did this weekend brought in 
3.3 base but gcc-3.2??  I need to verify this but does that make any sense?

Thanks!!

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Barry deFreese
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