Re: Installed gcc272 2.7.2.3-18 (i386 all source)

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Richard A Nelson writes:
 > Hrm, gcc272 is still the preferred compiler for 2.2.x series, is it not?

It is, for i386 (and probably for m68k).

 > It is automagically used by the kernel build script:
 > 
 > Linux version 2.2.19pre18 (root@back40) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #7 Fri Mar 23 11:44:40 EST 2001
 > 
 > In which case, do we really want to deprecate this now?

Yes. But probably the README should be extended to "The only reason it 
exists is to have a compiler for the linux kernel 2.0.x and on i386
for the linux kernel 2.2.x", until there is some kind of
recommendation for gcc-2.95.3.