Re: kernel 2.5.68 and egcs64
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 09:20:24PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > For now I just removed that check from init/main.c.
>
> good idea :)
>
> >
> > For the long term, gcc-3.3 doesn't build working kernels for me.
>
> I expected so... mine didn't boot.
>
> > Maybe one day it will, but when it does, it wont provide
> > sparc64-linux-gcc, it will provide just plain gcc, since the sparc64
> > kernel Makefiles already check if gcc is capable of 64bit kernel builds.
>
> mmmm strange is that taking a vanilla kernel, make menuconfig, make
> vmlinux was still complaining about sparc64-linux-gcc command not found.
That's because "gcc" does not point to a compiler that is 64bit capable.
The sparc64 makefiles have no idea what gcc-3.3 is. If /usr/bin/gcc was
pointing to gcc-3.3, it would have picked it up.
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