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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:58:30 +0800
To: "Felipe Alfaro Solana" <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
       "Nick Bartos" <spam99@2thebatcave.com>
Subject: Re: recommended "stable" compiler?
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From: "Michael Frank" <mhf@linuxmail.org>
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:19:39 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 12:59, Nick Bartos wrote:
>> What is the recommended stable compiler for compiling the latest 2.4.x
>> kernel?
>
> I'm no kernel guru, but I have been compiling 2.5/2.6 kernels for a long
> time with gcc 3.3 with no problems at all. I had problems with gcc 3.2
> in the past, miscompiling the ymfpci driver.
>

I am linux newbie, but have done 100's of kernel compiles the past 2 years.

AFAIK, 2.95.3 is still the official compiler and still supported.

2.95.3 without framepointers compiling kernels for 686 has never failed me
with 2.4 and 2.6 and I still use it exclusively for kernels.

3.2.2 made me lots of trouble with kernels - crashing within minutes.

Using RH 3.2.5 and Gentoo 3.2.3 for other compiles (whole system except kernel
in case of gentoo). No problems seen.

Have not tried 3.3 but by what I have read it is OK.

In any case keep your trusted old workhorse 2.95 around when trying something new...

Regards
Michael