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Re: make-dpkg error



On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 12:20:26 -0700, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> It looks like a problem with the compiler. 

Possible, but unlikely. Signal 11 errors are typically a sign of bad or
badly configured hardware (see www.bitwizard.nl/sig11). It could be a
compiler error if it is repeatable at the exact same source file.

> The kernel has lots of assembler, some of which disagrees with various
> versions of gcc.

Most of these problems have been fixed by now. I've had no problems with gcc
2.95.[12] compiled 2.2.x kernels.

> (But I don't know how to conveniently get this version of gcc under
> Debian.

"apt-get install gcc272" and fiddle with the kernel's top-level Makefile.

Ray
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