Re: Testing release w/ gcc 3.2.3 & 2.2.20 kernel

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 05:01:42PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > Quoting nate <debian-user@aphroland.org>:
> > > Jeffrey L. Taylor said:
> > > > Should I go to the 2.2.25 kernel or downgrade gcc (presumably to
> > > > 2.95.x?)
> > > 
> > > downgrade gcc. I have read that even gcc 3.x cannot reliably compile
> > > the 2.4.x kernels (yet). Last I saw, debian had no problem with having
> > > both gcc3 and gcc2.95 installed at the same time(on stable at least)
> > 
> > How do I force apt-get to only install gcc 2.95?
> 
> Install the gcc-2.95 package.
>

Using apt-get to install gcc-2.95 insists on installing 3.2 also.  I
have room (barely) for both.

> > As a second best choice, given that I have both installed, how do I
> > force make-kpkg to use 2.95?
> 
> You can either move the /usr/bin/gcc symlink or make the obvious simple
> change to the kernel's top-level Makefile (search for gcc).
> 

I fudged the symlink.  For the moment, I have no interest in using
gcc-3.2 on this machine.

Thanks,
  Jeffrey