Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

[Keith Dunwoody <kstephen@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> > I build kernels with alternate compilers all the time.  Did you check
> > the log to see which compiler the kernel actually built with?
>
>
>     Given that I told it to build with 2.95 and it failed in the same manner
> as with 3.3 but when I installed 2.95 from Woody which ONLY installs 2.95 it
> succeeded I, quite frankly, don't care if it compiled with 1.10.0.101.10.2. 
> 2.95 should install what it says it installs, 2.95.  Debian has version
> numbers in the names for a reason and that reason being when people NEED the
> previous version and not to upgrade to the current one.

I have managed to compile using gcc-2.95, using the gcc-2.95 package from 
testing a few weeks ago.  I'm sure that it was actually gcc-2.95 that was used, 
since the program I was compiling has a bug which manifests itself on gcc 3.x, 
but not 2.95.  And it worked when I used gcc-2.95, (from the debian package), 
but not with gcc-3.x (also from the debian packages).

-- Keith