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Re: Odd problem compiling new kernel



On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 21:19, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:42:11AM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > The gcc-3.x compiler does not work on the kernel.  Check what the
> > /usr/bin/gcc symlink points to.  If the gcc-3.x compiler, change it to
> > /usr/bin/gcc-2.95 or use environment variables to change the compiler
> > for just kernel builds.
> 
> Well, gcc-3.2 is not recommended, but works for lots of people:
> 
> rei $ grep "gcc version" /var/log/dmesg
> Linux version 2.4.21-rc2-ac2 (root@rei) (gcc version 3.2.3) #2 Mon May 19 19:37:10 PDT 2003
> 
> OTOT, gcc 3.3 is known to fail on the current stable kernel with the very
> error reported in this thread (see recent lkml postings).
> 
> There's nothing wrong with unstable.

When you say "There's nothing wrong with unstable.", does that 
mean that linux-source-2.4.20 builds using gcc 3.3?

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