On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:45:45AM +0200, Antonello wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:10, Otto Solares wrote: > > > > As I told you in private email gcc-3.3 can only successfully > > > compile current 2.4.22-rcX kernels. > > As per Ben Collin's info, we can use woody's gcc-3.3.1 > > to compile 2.6 kernels. > > 2.6 is not for me at the moment, at least on my Sun box, due to the lack of > user-friendly interfaces to compile a kernel that's quite new to me. (as I > stated some messages ago, menuconfig and xconfig are a no-go in 2.6. (I > wonder where the classic motif xconfig went, since it works in 2.4) :). > For sure I can use make config or make oldconfig, but even if I have a > sufficiently strong experience in compiling 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, I still feel > a bit of fear with 2.6, especially because I have no working 2.4.x custom > .config to start from, I'll try rc and see what happens. > I used the stock unstable kernel, however, to compile 2.6 on ix86 > successfully, so your assertion is valid.
How is menuconfig a no-go? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
