> Not unless they are actively known to break. People get huffy about it Well they do -- i just found out. > because even if it is known to have problems it doesn't break *their* > particular configuration. I'm getting to be of the opinion that people > who compile modern kernels with ancient compilers and expect it to work > are suffering from some particular kind of insanity -- it's nothing the > distros do. The only exception are embedded people who compile with the > latest 3.4 gcc; they have explained they do so because newer gccs have > too many dependencies (the actual compiler, not the generated code) and > for speed. At least in the old days the main reason for gcc 3 was build speed. AKPM and some others used to be fond of that. 3.x is apparently much faster than 4.x -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
