Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 (new build failure)

From: Martin Bligh
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 13:33:44 EST


Benoit Boissinot wrote:
On 12/15/05, Martin Bligh <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

New build failure since -mm2:
Config is
http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/config/abat/elm3b67

I'm guessing it was using gcc 2.95.4, though not sure.

CC arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from include/linux/stddef.h:4,
from include/linux/posix_types.h:4,
from include/linux/types.h:13,
from include/linux/capability.h:16,
from include/linux/sched.h:7,
from arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c:7:
include/linux/compiler.h:46: #error Sorry, your compiler is too old/not
recognized.


support for gcc-2.95 was dropped in -mm3.

Pah. For any good reason? or just people being lazy?
It's worked fine for about 5 years. Difficult to beleive it's suddenly unworkable.

m.
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