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Re: gcc 3.1 succeeds in building Linux 2.4.18
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at attbi dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, garyhade at us dot ibm dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:39:38 -0800
- Subject: Re: gcc 3.1 succeeds in building Linux 2.4.18
- References: <20020317142456.A19837@attbi.com>
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:24:56PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I followed Bill Beebe's advice and tried compiling Linux kernel 2.4.18
> with gcc version 3.1 20020308 (prerelease).
[snip]
> I was successfully able to build the Linux kernel, although I did not try
> running it:
> % strings vmlinux | grep gcc
>
> Linux version 2.4.18-0.4 (root@loquat) (gcc version 3.1 20020308 (prerelease)) #1 Sun Mar 17 12:14:11 EST 2002
Gary Hade has succeeded in building a 2.4.18 kernel on ia64 using a
recent version of GCC 3.1, but his kernel doesn't boot. Booting and
running a kernel is every bit as important as building it, so I
strongly encourage you and others who are testing kernel builds to
try using the new kernel.
Janis