gcc 3.1 succeeds in building Linux 2.4.18

Steve Christiansen smc@us.ibm.com
Wed Mar 27 13:25:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:18:33AM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:39:38PM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The IA64 problem should definitely be fixed before the release.

Just an FYI: Richard fixed the problem this morning.
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-03/msg01779.html

Gary will try another ia64 Linux kernel build today.

Thanks

Steve



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