Re: Becoming a Linux Hacker?
Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:12:18 +0200
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:35:10AM -0700, Ming Lei wrote:
> I am also the one who is interested in compiling old kernel, like
> v0.0.1 or v1.0, and booting it. However, I had difficulties to compile
> those acient kernels, for example, in link stage, a lot of symbols in
> x86 assembly code(head.S is one) remains undefined. Noticed here is that
> I used current gcc compiler, like 2.7.2 or egcs, not the one to used to
> compile those acient kernels(maybe 2.4). I hope to get gcc2.4 but nowhere
> to find it. I posted the help several weeks ago and unfortunately didnt
> get any answers. SO, it remains a future excise for me. Hope this email
> may get some response from the linux community.
I remember Eric Youngdale posting saying he'd updated 1.0.9 to work with
modern compilers and C libraries. 0.0.1 is a lost hope; you need minix
and gcc 1.x as I remember.
--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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