Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-12 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote these words on 10/11/05 15:52 CST: > > >>Take tongue out of cheek. We are FAR better at keeping our >>documentation up to date than the Kernel Developers who would rather >>introduce a 'really neat bit of new code' than document the bloody >>import

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Matteo
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 17:02, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote these words on 10/11/05 15:52 CST: > > Take tongue out of cheek. We are FAR better at keeping our > > documentation up to date than the Kernel Developers who would rather > > introduce a 'really neat bit of new code'

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Richard A Downing wrote these words on 10/11/05 15:52 CST: > Take tongue out of cheek. We are FAR better at keeping our > documentation up to date than the Kernel Developers who would rather > introduce a 'really neat bit of new code' than document the bloody > important stuff they wrote last yea

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Richard A Downing
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > >> True, but strangely the linux-2.6.14-rc4/README says >> >>> COMPILING the kernel: >>> >>> - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available. >> >> >> >> Serves me right for looking. I haven't installed gcc-2.95 for a long time > > > Andrew, you do real

Re: gcc 2.3.5 (correction: gcc-2.95.3)

2005-10-11 Thread Brandin Creech
--- Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > > True, but strangely the linux-2.6.14-rc4/README says > > > >> COMPILING the kernel: > >> > >> - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available. > > > > Serves me right for looking. I haven't installed gcc-2.95 for a long time

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/11/05 14:33 CST: > True, but strangely the linux-2.6.14-rc4/README says > >>COMPILING the kernel: >> >> - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available. > > Serves me right for looking. I haven't installed gcc-2.95 for a long time Yes, the kernel docs are way out

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Matthew Burgess
Andrew Benton wrote: True, but strangely the linux-2.6.14-rc4/README says COMPILING the kernel: - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available. Serves me right for looking. I haven't installed gcc-2.95 for a long time Andrew, you do realise that us LFSers know far better than the kernel dev

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: That used to be the case, before NPTL came along. You cannot build current (or even recent stable) versions of LFS using a kernel generated by GCC-2.95.3. True, but strangely the linux-2.6.14-rc4/README says COMPILING the kernel: - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 availa

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Randy McMurchy
Nicholas Capitelli wrote these words on 10/11/05 13:00 CST: > Just my 2 cents but isnt gcc-2.95.3 recommended by the > kernel programmers to build the kernel. Its suppose to > produce the most stable kernel since the kernel is > written in C. I think that is definately a good reason > to install g

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Nicholas Capitelli
--- Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > > Hi > > > > I recall that previous versions of BLFS or LFS (or > maybe both) > > recommended installing gcc-2.3.5 in addition to > gcc3. I think there >

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Brandin Creech wrote: Now that gcc4 is out (and will be in the next LFS stable release), I'm wondering--is it necessary (or a good idea, even) to keep a copy of some gcc3 version. What about gcc2--is it necessary to keep that (assuming we're Linux 2.6)? Declan has alrea

Re: gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Hi > > I recall that previous versions of BLFS or LFS (or maybe both) > recommended installing gcc-2.3.5 in addition to gcc3. I think there > were a few packages that didn't compile with gcc3, but did with > gcc-2.3.5 (a

gcc 2.3.5

2005-10-11 Thread Brandin Creech
Hi I recall that previous versions of BLFS or LFS (or maybe both) recommended installing gcc-2.3.5 in addition to gcc3. I think there were a few packages that didn't compile with gcc3, but did with gcc-2.3.5 (and I think that was the recommended gcc for Linux 2.4). Now that gcc4 is out (and