On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Steven Lembark wrote:
> 
> --On Wednesday, September 10, 2003 07:34:26 -0500 Dave Kleikamp 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 04:06, szonyi calin wrote:
> >> it seems that gcc-2.95.3 doesn't like the definition of
> >> fsck_send_msg
> >> gcc version:
> >> Reading specs from
> >> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/2.95.3/specs
> >>  gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
> >
> > We were bit by this one once before in with the kernel code.  Try this
> > patch.  I don't have the 2.95 compiler handy, so please let me know
> > whether or not this fixes it.  Thanks.
> 
> That or use a real gcc compiler for your kernel and modules. 2.95.3 is
> an invention of RH's that was rejected by the gcc people -- it's the
> reason that RH had to issue a "kgcc" for a while. If you install a
> new copy of gcc with --prefix=/opt/gcc and then export CC=/opt/gcc/bin/gcc
> you can build a new kernel, etc, with something like 3.3.1 (which works
> for me).
> 
> Issuing 2.95.3 was probably a mistake for RH since noone else supported
> it or tested their code with it.

If you change 2.95.3 in everything you said to 2.96, it would then be 
correct.  2.95.3 is an official GCC release, while 2.96 is RedHat's name 
for the GCC CVS snapshot that they shipped in RH 7.x.

Scott


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Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
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