Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more and WARNING

2000-12-05 Thread Michael Jinks
ent provider, by all means switch; but expect to lose a day now and then no matter what, until computer science is a lot more mature than it is today. > -----Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael R. Jinks > Sent: Tuesday, Dec

Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more and WARNING

2000-12-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:02:57PM -0800, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > Michael, > > There are TONS of messages on the net (some from Alan Cox which seems to > know what he is talking about) about the fact that the gcc 2.96 is NOT a > release, that it produces broken kernel. It is easy to find on

RE: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more and WARNING

2000-12-05 Thread Rick Forrister
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > Michael, > > There are TONS of messages on the net (some from Alan Cox which seems to > know what he is talking about) about the fact that the gcc 2.96 is NOT a > release, that it produces broken kernel. It is easy to find on the net : > search f

RE: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more and WARNING

2000-12-05 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
ecember 05, 2000 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more and WARNING Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > > I respond to myself as it seems that it is a well known pb with RH 7.0 . > the shipped version is bugged ! What makes you say this? Be specific.

RE: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more and WARNING

2000-12-05 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Philippe Moutarlier Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 5:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more Well, I don't know how you could compile this code at all. I went

Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more and WARNING

2000-12-05 Thread Michael R. Jinks
Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > > I respond to myself as it seems that it is a well known pb with RH 7.0 . > the shipped version is bugged ! What makes you say this? Be specific. I've had no trouble using RH7, and I've now compiled the kernel several times, so I'm inclined to suspect that som

RE: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more !!!!

2000-12-05 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
k now... Philippe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael R. Jinks Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more Yuck. Well, what about trying to install the kernel from a

Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more !!!!

2000-12-05 Thread Michael R. Jinks
of these distribs which > seem > to get worse and worse every time :=( > > Any help about fixing these pbs without re-installing from scratch (I did > an update) > would be very very welcome. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ...

2000-12-05 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
as always been somehow a big pain as soon as you have any custom stuff going on Philippe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael R. Jinks Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 7.0 "upgrade" p

Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ...

2000-12-05 Thread Michael R. Jinks
I ran into this problem yesterday. If your .config file is worth saving, rename it and then do a "make mrproper", which will erase all relics of past compiles from the source tree as well as any user-entered configuration information. Then do a "make [x|menu]config" and re-load your .config file

Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ...

2000-12-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > Hi, > > on a regular basis, I try to upgrade RH and I almost always have to go back > to the list. > > Here again, I have a pretty interesting pbs : > > 2 times I tried to re-compile the kernel after intalling the sources. > > Fist pb : install