[ale] Secrets to coimpiling on RH7.2

[James P. Kinney III]

Updates are good!

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 10:03, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On 28 Feb 2002, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Actually, the kernel compiles with gcc 3 today (and has for a few months
> now).  It's user-space that's the problem.  c++ code that works with gcc
> 2.9x will often not compile with gcc 3.0 or gcc 3.1....
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
> 
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