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Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 glibc2.1 Backward compat - revisited
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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:49:38PM -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> 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).
Unstable? The folks at redhat seem to think that gcc 2.96 is more
standards compliant than the kernel code.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20593 suggests
that all this fuss is over some syntax "errors". What is all this
"binary incompatible" stuff coming from? To restate an earlier
question : can anyone point me to a decent _technical_ explanation of
this problem?
Is kgcc just for the syntax errors?
What is binary incompatible with what?
How is it binary incompatible?
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