On Thursday 28 September 2006 15:14, Robert Baker wrote: > I definately understand your point of view on the kernel versions. I > am just wondering if you think there is a good reason not to include > the reccommended gcc-2.95.3 for compiling the kernel.If your just > saying it should be fine without it I still think we should follow > the reccommendations of the kernel devs and use it. Better safe than > sory.
I don't know at exactly what point that recommendation went out of date, but it certainly sat in the kernel documentation directory long after it no longer applied. I think it was due to the relative instability of the early gcc 3 series rather than anything else. Alex :-) -- Pippin Computer Monkey to the Pelican www.oxrev.org.uk, www.corpusjcr.org, www.rev.org.uk
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