[ale] Secrets to coimpiling on RH7.2

[James P. Kinney III]

Note:

If you install gcc-3.0x from the RedHat 7.2 rpms, it will install it as
gcc3. You have to install gcc-2.96 to be able to compile kernels. It's
not as if gcc3 is broken for kernel compiles. It's more that kernel code
uses too many older macros and deprecated code for gcc3 to finish. It
will be a loooong time before the kernel is gcc3 compatible.

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 09:21, Jim Philips wrote:
> RH 7.2 also gives you a choice of installing gcc 2.96 or gcc 3.0. Which
> did you install? If you installed 3.0, you can have major problems
> compiling C++ programs. I eventually gave up on 3.0 and went back to
> 2.96 to avoid these issues.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 07:50, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > If I download a source RPM from RedHat's site I would assume I would be able to compile it.  I download a RH7.2 source rpm and the compile fails.  Why bother than?
> > 
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