Re: gcc howto

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Sherab Puntsok <SherabPuntsok@netscape.net> writes:
> My aim is to have a Debian system running gcc 3.0.4 and libc6 2.2.5
> with kernel 2.4.18. (Was running potato r0 gcc 2.95.2 libc 2.1.3)
> First I've done the update by apt-get.

(What did you update?)

> Then I have manually compiled (against libc6-2.1.3) and installed
> gcc 3.0.4 with default directory (--prefix=/usr/local) and meet the
> requirements for a 2.4.18 kernel.  Kernel was then upgraded to
> 2.4.18 Now I also compile and installed glibc-2.2.5 from tarball and
> installed by make install which puts them to /usr/local/lib and run
> ldconfig.

Oof.  My guess is that your life will be substantially better if you
just "upgrade" your machine wholesale to Debian testing (or unstable).
That includes glibc-2.2.5 and prebuilt 2.4.18 kernel images, if you're
into that sort of thing.  You can also install the gcc-3.0 package
from unstable to get version 3.0.4 of gcc.

(This begs the question, "why do you think you need these particular
versions of these particular libraries?"  In general, Debian is
continuing to use gcc-2.95 for things, and it works fine to build the
kernel with it.  You need to update a whole bunch of user-space things
from Debian stable to use a 2.4.x kernel, though.)

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David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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