Re: Bug#328707: kernel-source-2.4.27: Compile fails

[François Duranleau <duranlef@iro.umontreal.ca>]

In-Reply-To=<20051029092747.GA31336@andebjor.csbnet.se>

> micah <micah@riseup.net> [2005-10-29 02:26]:
> >
> > I had this same problem and solved it by changing my symlink for 
> > /usr/bin/gcc to point to gcc-3.3 instead of 4.0 for the duration of 
> > the 2.4 compile. Clearly this isn't the best solution, but its a 
> > work-around.
>
> I'm afraid this doesn't work for me as the compilation ends in the exact
> same error message.
>
> Horms wrote:
> >
> > Strange, kernel-source-2.4.27-11 should be using gcc-3.3, as I
> > patched the top-level Makefile to do so. But I think I am seeing
> > this problem too, so I guess there is a hole in there somewhere.
>
> In my original report I had gcc pointing to gcc-4.0 but still you can
> see that gcc-3.3 was used to compile process.c. I imagine that gcc-4.0
> could have messed up earlier in the process and that this manifests
> itself in this way when compiling process.c but, with my limited
> knowledge in this area, this doesn't seem likely.
>
> /Björn

I met this problem as well lately, and the way I "solved" it was to 
momentarily downgrade binutils from 2.16.1cvs20051117-1 (current version 
from Debian testing) to the version in Debian stable (2.15-6) (since the 
error is reported by the GNU assembler 'as'). It seems that there is a 
problem between gcc-3.3 and binutils (at least for 'as').

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François Duranleau
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