On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Nathan Paul Simons wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:55:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Hardly. In fact the idea of distributing a different compiler for kernels
> > comes from debian and the kgcc naming convention from Conectiva.
>
> What different compiler? If you're talking about the kernel-package
> package of Debian, that's only scripts to generate a Debian kernel package
> from custom source.
>...
No, he's talking about the gcc272 package that includes version 2.7.2.3
of gcc:
$ apt-cache show gcc272
Package: gcc272
Priority: extra
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 1596
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
Version: 2.7.2.3-16
...
Description: The GNU C compiler.
This is the old version of the GNU C compiler's C part. It should only
be used for backward compatibility purposes.
...
cu,
Adrian
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