Re: Recommended compiler? - Re: [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant)

2000-10-31 Thread Martin Dalecki
Horst von Brand wrote: > > Martin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [...] > > > > * Red Hat "2.96" or CVS 2.97 will probably break any known kernel. > > > Works fine for me and 2.4.0-test10-pre5... however there are tons of > > preprocessor warnings in some drive

Re: Recommended compiler? - Re: [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant)

2000-10-30 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:50:07PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > Martin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [...] > > > > * Red Hat "2.96" or CVS 2.97 will probably break any known kernel. > > > Works fine for me and 2.4.0-test10-pre5... however there are tons of

Re: Recommended compiler? - Re: [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant)

2000-10-30 Thread Horst von Brand
Martin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Samuelson wrote: [...] > > * Red Hat "2.96" or CVS 2.97 will probably break any known kernel. > Works fine for me and 2.4.0-test10-pre5... however there are tons of > preprocessor warnings in some drivers. CVS (from 20001028 or so) gave a 2.4.0.

Re: Recommended compiler? - Re: [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant)

2000-10-30 Thread Martin Dalecki
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > So which is the recommended compiler for each kernel version 2.2.x, > > 2.4.x(pre?) nowadays? > > * 2.91.66 aka egcs 1.1.2. It has been officially blessed for 2.4 and > has been given an informal thumbs-up by Alan for 2.2. (It does NOT > work for 2.0, if you st

Re: Recommended compiler? - Re: [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant)

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
> So which is the recommended compiler for each kernel version 2.2.x, > 2.4.x(pre?) nowadays? * 2.91.66 aka egcs 1.1.2. It has been officially blessed for 2.4 and has been given an informal thumbs-up by Alan for 2.2. (It does NOT work for 2.0, if you still care about that.) * 2.7.2.3 work

Recommended compiler? - Re: [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant)

2000-10-30 Thread Linux Kernel Developer
So which is the recommended compiler for each kernel version 2.2.x, 2.4.x(pre?) nowadays? I've pretty much kept gcc 2.7.2.3 around just for compiling the kernel however now I hear you need egcs to compile 2.4? I don't mind keeping 2.7.2.3 around in its own installation directory just for the pur