Re: Work for developers
On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 06:54:01PM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote:
> John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.Arizona.EDU> writes:
> > I thought we were supposed to prefer egcc. How am I supposed to
> > write a rules file that uses egcc, otherwise?
>
> I'm not aware of any policy to 'prefer' egcc. Certainly Linus doesn't
> prefer it to build the kernel, that speaks for itself.
I don't follow linux-kernel, but it is my impression that the 2.1 kernels
are currently tested with egcs a lot, and that 2.2 will build fine with
egcs.
Given that Galen, Matthias and I see the problem with 2.0 kernels as the
only reason to have FSF gcc 2.7.2 be the default C compiler, it is highly
likely that we will switch to egcs as the default C compiler when 2.2
kernels will be available. As such, egcc will become the preferred C
compiler.
Ray
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