Re: How to get a working kernel? (2.4)

[satadru@umich.edu]

If you uninstall gcc-3.3, the kernel compile will automatically use 
sparc64-linux-gcc.

(as long as you set the ARCH properly to sun4u, for instance).

satadru

--On Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:30 AM -0400 Ben Collins 
<bcollins@debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:10:00AM -0500, Greg Moeller wrote:
> > >
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> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to compile the latest 2.4 series kernel (2.4.20?) and
> > > > using gcc3.
> > >
> > > Don't use gcc3 to compile kernels, use egcs64 instead.
> > >
> > > Gruss
> > > Steffan
> > What should be linked to gcc?
> > I've got:
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       144316 Apr 13  2002 /usr/bin/gcc-2.95
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        80500 Apr 10  2002 /usr/bin/gcc-3.0
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        74944 Jan  4  2001
> > /usr/bin/sparc64-linux-gcc.egcs64
> >
> > If I link the sparc64... to gcc, I can't compile anything at all,
> > instant  failure, even with make xconfig. (or make dep)
> >
> > Anyone happen to have a .config file that compiles 2.4.20 or 2.5.70
> > clean?  (and has SMP enabled?)
>
> /usr/bin/sparc64-linux-gcc is linked to
> /usr/bin/sparc64-linux-gcc.egcs64.
>
> Edit arch/sparc64/Makefile in the kernel and comment out CC= and add a
> line like:
>
> CC=sparc64-linux-gcc
>
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