Re: support of older compilers

[linux-os]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 07:41 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       281572 Jul 30  1995 zImage-1.2.11
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       277476 Apr  1  1995 zImage-1.2.2
> >
> > Ok, you da man. What do you use it for? Or is it just lying around for
> > nostalgic reasons?
>
> some people are just a bit stubborn in accepting elf binaries perhaps ;)

Most of the tools on this machine were built on this machine:

Script started on Fri 05 Nov 2004 11:02:59 AM EST
# ls -la
total 112
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov  5 11:02 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  4096 Oct 22  1997 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  7433 Aug 23  1994 lpr.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 16776 Oct 22  1997 lpr.c
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 16614 Jul 29  1996 lpr.c~
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 16712 Nov 24  1996 lpr.c.orig
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 31948 Dec 17  1993 lpr.termios
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   188 Oct 25  1994 Makefile
# pwd
/home/project/usr/src/lpr-5.9/lpr
# exit
exit
Script done on Fri 05 Nov 2004 11:03:12 AM EST

I would modify the BSD source so it would compile and run
on Linux, then I would submit it. You can see, above that
`lpr` had to get modified in 1996 to accommodate some
changes (probably GCC changes).

I save all this to show that there isn't a GNU/Linux, really
a BSD/Linux.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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