Re: Linux 2.0.37pre10

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:07:56 -0400


> Hi!
>
> > Ok this one should be it. Couple of compile fixes, some minor device
> > updates and the fsync() fix.
> >
> > You need binutils 2.8 or 2.9 to build this kernel tree. 2.7 is not good
> > enough
>
> Are you sure this is good idea? I thought 2.0 kernel was designed to
> compile with pretty old tools... Upgrading binutils can be rather
> nontrivial (ask jj about my sun4 :-).
>
> Pavel

Ungzipping and untaring the gzipped the prebuilt binary tarball and
following any other intructions in the README has always worked for me.

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