Re: unable to compile a kernel

[Joe Lazaro <debian@joepenguin.com>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:27:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> i just tried to compile the kernel.org 2.4.20 kernel, but it bailed

I heard from #debian on irc.freenode.net that gcc 3.3 is unable to
compile kernels. Here is what the bot says:

"<apt> i guess 2.4bug is look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194287 as it says
there, gcc-3.3 cannot compile 2.4 kernels, apt-get install gcc-3.2 or
gcc-2.95 (preferred) then edit the top level Makefile before you make
dep with: perl -pi.bak -e 's/gcc/gcc-2.95/' Makefile, or gcc-3.3
compiles 2.4.21-rc3 and up just fine"

I was able to compile 2.4.21-rc7 with gcc 3.3, but use 2.95 for 2.4.20.

- Joe