compiler question

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 21 July 2003 12:13 pm, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Monday 21 July 2003 08:32 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > My reply is mixed within your original text...
> >
> > On Monday 21 July 2003 10:56 am, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > > I see that more and more stuff will require gcc 3.3 and I've been
> > > running gcc 2.95.2.  So can someone tell me what potential
> > > problems I might have if I install 3.3.  Specifically
> > > a)  will 3.3 prevent me from now making small changes in my 2.4.4
> > > kernel previously compiled with 2.95.2?
> >
> > You mean on the source code level and then recompiling it with gcc
> > 3.3? No problems...
>
> Any remarks from anyone about Bruce's comment on kernels lower than
> 2.4.21 not compiling with 3.3??

I'm running SuSE 8.2  which has gcc-3.3 installed.  It is supplied with a 
2.4.20 kernel, but heavily patched.

I downloaded a vanilla  2.4.20 kernel to roll my own and it wouldn't 
compile due to the string problems.  That's how I discovered it.  The 
2.4.21 kernel compiles fine.





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