Re: Official kernel stance on EGCS?

John Kennedy (jk@csuchico.edu)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 06:13:04 -0800 (PST)


[Aaron Tiensivu]
> I know that egcs is generally frowned upon for compiling 2.0.xx and
> I know that fix-ups have been done to 2.1 to make it compatible
> with egcs. Right now I'm grabbing the latest egcs cvs tree and
> was wondering if the more recent versions are a valid testbed with
> respect to the kernel?
>
> Will 2.2 freak out if I'm not using gcc 2.7.2.3?

Until you can submit a grievance with a kernel compiled with egcs
and have people listen to you, stick with gcc-2.7.2.3. (:

linux-2.1 & -2.2 have been more egcs "safe" and egcs tends to work
well for a bunch of people, but it isn't guaranteed. When people find
a problem (which is problem #1: not all problems may have been found)
and get past the finger-pointing stage (problem #2), then they've got
to get a patch past Linus that fixes it in an acceptable way (problem #3).

--- john

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