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

[Benoit Boissinot]

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

There is an article on kerneltrap: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5974

regards,

Benoit
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