Re: 2.6.12 upload
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:08:59AM +0200, Horms wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:20:31PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:55:42 +0300, Horms wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:39:55PM +0300, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > [...]
> > >> - i'm leaning towards using gcc-3.3, as i'm afraid of gcc-4.0
> > >> miscompiling things. however, if any architectures require gcc-4.0,
> > >> either let me know, or update svn directly.
> > >
> > > How are you planing to do that.
> > > I need to do something about the fact that users go and
> > > grab kernel-source-2.4.27 and it doesn't compile with the
> > > default gcc any more. Here are three solutions I have thought.
> > >
> > > 1. Document this somewhere
> > > 2. Change the makefile to default to gcc-3.3
> > > 3. Change the makefile to print out a nice error if gcc version >=4.0
> > >
> > > In all cases it seems it would be good to recommend gcc-3.3.
> > >
> >
> > Actually, enough people on IRC have said that gcc-4.0 works for that, that
> > I'm not convinced gcc-3.3 is necessary. I'm on the fence, I could go
> > either way.
>
> I for one haven't been able to compile 2.4.27 (from sarge) with gcc-4.0,
> it dies horribly, and as I understand there is no interest uptream in
> making 2.4 friendly to gcc-4.0. Sure it might work for some
> configurations, but I'm pretty sure its broken for enough that its a
> problem, the 686 config in sarge for starters.
2.4 on x86 is supposed to go away for etch anyway though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Reply to: