From: Reid Hekman <reid.hekman@ndsu.nodak.edu>
To: kelley eicher <carde@astro.umn.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: safest verion of gcc to use?
Date: 17 Jan 2002 12:39:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1011292762.31205.24.camel@zeus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020117121923.A7977@astro.umn.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020117121923.A7977@astro.umn.edu>
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 12:19, kelley eicher wrote:
> quick question here. [kernel-src]/Documentation/Changes and
> [kernel-src]/README say two different things about which version of gcc
> is recommended for the compiling of the linux kernel. README says egcs
> 1.1.2 and Documentation/Changes says to use gcc 2.95.3 or greater.
> is the last egcs release still the preferred or has that changed to the
> gcc 2.95.x releases?
Yes, Documentation/Changes is more correct. For i386, 2.95.[34] and
2.96-[>=85] work fine. GCC 3.0.3 should work too, though some drivers
have had difficulties and earlier 3.x releases generated some ICE's.
Other architectures may vary.
./README and ./Documentation/Changes need some trimming...
Regards,
Reid
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-17 18:41 UTC|newest]
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2002-01-17 18:19 kelley eicher
2002-01-17 18:39 ` Reid Hekman [this message]
2002-01-17 19:02 ` Wakko Warner
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