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Re: Compiling kernel2.0.36 on potato?



The Dragon De Monsyne writes:
> Hello, I just reacently upgraded a slink box at work to potato for
> warious reasons, and now I find I'm unable to recompile the kernel (ix86
> box) (I get all sorts of errors about bad asm code. I'm gathering this is
> due to an incompatibility btwn the kernel and gcc?

Yes.  Potato uses gcc-2.95.  You need to install gcc272 (it won't replace
gcc-2.95)  and edit the kernel's top-level makefile to use it.
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