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Re: compiling linux kernels with GCC 3.0
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- Subject: Re: compiling linux kernels with GCC 3.0
- From: Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:30:29 +0200
In article <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-10/msg00666.html> Linus
Torvalds writes:
> gcc-3.0.x is supposed to work fine. It's not the recommended compiler
> for "regular users", but that's not due to known problems, but simply
> due to lack of history with it. I know several developers who are
using
> current gcc snapshots for kernel compiles, and they have yet to report
> compiler trouble. (Well, I've actually gotten one report of kernel
> trouble, but that was from rth with his personal gcc sandbox, and he
> seemed to fix that ;)
gcc is having problems with the ISDN subsystem of recent kernels:
The file capi.c won't compile with 3.0.x, see PR 4298 :-(
However, you can compile it, if you use "-O1" instead of "-O2" :-)
Greetings,
Volker Reichelt