Re: Is the kernel compiler gcc by definition?

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 03:24:26 -0400


Mine died when trying to use the PNP utilities. Do they work on your
system?

-----Original Message-----
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com>
Cc: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>; RHS Linux User
<humbubba@raptor.cqi.com>; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
<linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Is the kernel compiler gcc by definition?

>"Anthony Barbachan" <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com> said:
>> I tried using the CC="gcc-2.7.2.3" option to compile the kernel on a
machine
>> using gcc 2.8.1 by default. Unfortunately while most of kernel did
compile
>> with 2.7.2.3 some parts did not [...]
>
>Change the line in the top level Makefile into:
>
>CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc -V2.7.2.3 -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)
>
>I'm using that with egcs, and the resulting kernels work fine AFAIKS. The
>egcs driver complains endlessly about deprecated stuff in the gcc spec
>file, but that's life ;-)
>--
>Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
>Casilla 9G, Viņa del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
>

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