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Re: GCC for kernel compilation



On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 15:09, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:33:38PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:27:20PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > > I just upgraded to the current Sarge and also got GCC 3.3. It seems this
> > > version can't compile all the drivers in kernel 2.4.21. Which version
> > > should I use? And how do I set this version (Environment variable?)
> > > without deinstalling GCC 3.3?
> > 
> > For now, kernel compiles should use 2.95.  Setting this can be done like
> > so:
> > 
> >    MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95" make-kpkg ...
> > 
> > That is assuming you use the make-kpkg utility for building your
> > kernels.  Otherwise, simply setting CC=gcc-2.95 may be enough.
> 
> Interesting.  I just built kernel-source-2.4.21 with xfs and lmsensors 
> patches using make-kpkg, and also the mga_vid driver (for mplayer) and 
> as far as I know I used gcc 3.3.1.   It all went find except I needed to
> edit a few source files that had macros that were more than one line 
> long.
> 
> Was I just lucky?  What's the issue with gcc 3.3 and kernel building?

Well, you shouldn't need to edit those source files.  gcc 3.2.3 worked
fine for me on 2.4.20.

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