Michael Leone on Thu, 24 May 2001 22:51:33 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 glibc2.1 Backward compat - revisited


On 24 May 2001 22:41:45 -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Michael Leone (on Thu, 24 May 2001 10:35:14PM -0400):
> > Just never re-compile a kernel with "gcc"; always use "kgcc".
> 
> huh? maybe i am just inherently stupid, but the standard Makefile for
> the linux kernel uses gcc... moreover, my (debian) systems do not have
> any kgcc on them. what's up?

We're not talking about Debian; we're talking about RH7. 

On RH7, "kgcc" is supposed to call out gcc 2.95.3 (the stable version,
which is suitable for kernel compiling); "gcc" calls out gcc 2.96 (i.e.,
the unstable, "never-compile-a-kernel-with-this-version" compiler).

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