Re: Building 2.4.5 sun4u kernels

[Marcus Crafter <crafterm@fztig938.bank.dresdner.net>]

Hi Ben,

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ben Collins wrote:

> > 	Should egcs64 be in the debian/control file under Build-Depends, or is
> > 	kernel package out-of-date/wrong ? 
> > 
> > 	(or have I totally missed the plot, in which case what packages should
> > 	I have installed to be able to build a kernel from source properly ?)
> 
> Use the gcc-3.0-sparc64 package from unstable. It should create a
> symlink via update-alternatives from sparc64-linux-gcc to gcc-3.0.

	Thanks for the tip. I have this package installed. Unfortunately it
	did not create the link for me (package version 1:3.0-0pre010427).
	Looks like that could be a bug ?

> I have been using the gcc-3.0-sparc64 package since it allows me to
> build some drivers that egcs64 cannot.

	Ok. I've made the symlinks manually, and have a build currently
	running with gcc-3.0.

	Thank again for your help.

	Cheers,

	Marcus

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