Re: GCC-2.9.5 & Linux ( and Co. ) ...

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
23 Oct 1999 00:03:17 +0200

In article <cistron.3810A225.94D3D30A@efore.fi>,
Lauri Tischler <lauri.tischler@efore.fi> wrote:
>As far as Debian is conserned, it _really_ bugs me that anytime I say
>'upgrade'
>the darn thing tryes to replace my perfectly working gcc 2.7.2.x with
>non-working gcc 2.95.x

2.95.x works fine, a lot of Debian itself is compiled with it. It's
just the kernel that should not be compiled with 2.95.x, but Debian
has a "gcc272" package for exactly this purpose. You do need to edit
the kernels main Makefile and change

CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)

to

CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc272 -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)

I wonder why it's not simply

CC :=$(CROSS_COMPILE)$(CC) -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)

.. so that you can do "make CC=gcc272".. oh well.

Mike.

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