Re: GCC and EGCS

[D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

As I understand the history,  the egcs people had a disagreement with
the gcc people so they split off and continued to develop gcc on their
own.  Later, egcs was in a better state than gcc so the gcc people got
together with the egcs people and merged the two compilers to make a
best of both techniques compiler.  Thus the egcs split no longer
exists and gcc 2.95.2 is the latest compiler.

I'm not sure, but I think the kernel was built/tested with gcc 2.7.2
which is why they recommend it.  However, I have read comments that
say for kernel 2.4 gcc 2.91.6 is recommended and 2.7.2 is no longer
supported.

I have built my own kernel without trouble before, on a RH 6.1 system
(I think it had egcs 1.1.?).  Other people have commented on building
their kernels with gcc 2.95.2 without trouble.

I had upgraded my RH system to gcc 2.95.2 without any major trouble
(once I got around having all the rpms correctly installed).

I think you will be fine with gcc 2.95.2.  Just don't try and use 2.96
;-).

HTH,
-D

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:00:14PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
| Hi all
| 
| I am really confused over the different compilers wich seems to be 
| together.
| 
| Does EGCS exist today? or is it included in GCC. Many software recomments 
| to be compiled with egcs (???). I have GCC 2.95.2 installed on my machine 
| wich seems to be the latest version of GCC. The kernel doc tells me that i
| 
| have to use GCC 2.72 (???) and only for secondary choice the latest GCC!
| 
| Could someone solute my confusion?
| 
| Thanks for every help.
| 
| cheers,
| Raffaele