Re: [Plug] Kernel Compile Errors with 2.2.11

[Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org>]

On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 08:27:08AM -0700, est@hyperreal.org wrote:
> Morgan Wajda-Levie discourseth:
> > I'm trying to compile kernel 2.2.11 on my 586 Debian Potato system.
> > I've set everything up with make menuconfig, but the kernel
> > compilation bombs with the following error:
> > 
> > make[3]: *** No rule to make target `pc_keyb.h', needed by `pc_keyb.o'.  Stop.
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char'
> 
> Did you do `make depend'?
> 
> > I'm using gcc 2.95.1.  I've also included my configuration file.
> 
> It doesn't have anything to do with the current problem, but I'd
> recommend using gcc 2.7.2.3 to compile the kernel.  Later gccs are
> known to have problems (or more that the kernel depends on certain
> idiosyncratic behavior of earlier gccs :) I think gcc 2.95 has a
> switch to make it kernel friendly as well, but I've never tried it.
> 

Is there any easy way to downgrade from 2.95 to 2.7 using Debian
packages?  Debian upgraded my gcc automatically when it came out.

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