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Re: How to get a working kernel? (2.4)



On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:10:00AM -0500, Greg Moeller wrote:
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> > >I'm trying to compile the latest 2.4 series kernel (2.4.20?) and using gcc3.
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> > Don't use gcc3 to compile kernels, use egcs64 instead.
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> > Gruss
> > Steffan
> What should be linked to gcc?
> I've got:
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       144316 Apr 13  2002 /usr/bin/gcc-2.95
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        80500 Apr 10  2002 /usr/bin/gcc-3.0
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        74944 Jan  4  2001 /usr/bin/sparc64-linux-gcc.egcs64
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> If I link the sparc64... to gcc, I can't compile anything at all, instant 
> failure, even with make xconfig. (or make dep)
> 
> Anyone happen to have a .config file that compiles 2.4.20 or 2.5.70 clean? 
> (and has SMP enabled?)

/usr/bin/sparc64-linux-gcc is linked to
/usr/bin/sparc64-linux-gcc.egcs64.

Edit arch/sparc64/Makefile in the kernel and comment out CC= and add a
line like:

CC=sparc64-linux-gcc

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