Re: [mac68k] Do you ant to play with a floppy ?
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Finn Thain wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> > > > I notice you are using peculiar (to me) versions of compilers. 3.4
> > > > for m68k and 4.1 as cross compiler. Is this more compatible ?
> > > >
> > > > Reason I ask is there was some discussion on the list lately about
> > > > have had held on to 3.3 too long and why and problems with 4.1 (and
> > > > 4.2 now as well).
> > >
> > > In fact, for m68k, I tried to move to gcc 4 but it generates incorrect
> > > code. So I use gcc 3.
> >
> > Part of my question was how or why you have 3.4 when I have 3.3, I
> > cannot recall seeing 3.4 anywhere except on gnu website so it may be you
> > built it yourself from gnu ?
>
> There are debian packages for 3.4 if you go looking for them.
>
> I wouldn't advise using FSF sources without searching the gcc bugzilla
> first. E.g. FSF 3.4.6 throws an internal compiler error when building the
> OCFS kernel module.
>
> > I have wondered if better to do that as some other distro now has m68k
> > in uClinux supports all versions of 68 k now so maybe patches of debian
> > are different, could be debian has more bugs.
>
> Personally, I used debian sources (having read through the patches). And
> given the debugging efforts Roman and others made for etch, debian's gcc
> 4.1 was the obvious choice. But for the moment I tend to use 3.3 for
> kernel development because it is faster and it is a known quantity.
Perhaps I should have mentioned explicitly I'm using the Debian sources of gcc
4.1, if that wasn't obvious.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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