Bug#481403: gcc-4.1 creates no gcc symlink, gcc-4.2 does
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:57:34PM +0200, Alexis Huxley wrote:
> gcc-4.2 gets installed with the current 'testing' by default, but it is
> not the compiler used to compile the latest 2.6 series kernel package.
The kernel helper package explicitely depends against _and_ uses
gcc-4.1, this is not configurable.
> Therefore gcc-4.2 is no good for compiling other modules from source
> (e.g. VMware modules, uvc-video, etc ...).
This is incorrect. Fix the Makefiles provided by the module sources to
not break the kernel provided infrastructure.
Bastian
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