Re: 5000 emails later, compressed summary ;)
Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:44:31 +1200
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 02:46:10PM -0700, David Ford wrote:
> On 3 Jun 1998, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> [snip]
> > echo "Dumb jerk, you're trying to compile a 2.0 kernel with"
> > echo "a gcc other than 2.7.2.x"
> > echo "DON'T"
> > exit 1
> > It should get rid om some of the complaints here on linux-kernel. :-)
>
> i've been using pgcc for over a year. being that i have >50% of a dozen
> moderately heavily used servers having uptimes in excess of 180 days, i
> don't think the above is necessary :)
>
> every last one of two dozen machines is built with pgcc and except for
> admins with clumsy feet and power cords, they stay running.
Some stuff breaks - maybe not you stuff, but for some people, stuff breaks.
Making 2.1.x happy for egcs/gcc-2.8.x is a good idea, but 2.0.34 with
gcc-2.7.2.3 is a well tested apparently stable configuration.
Its better to target the masses, of you like pgcc/whatever then you hack
your source tree and no one looses. This is one reason with Free Software is
a good thing.
-Chris
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