On 7/27/05, Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:56:18AM +1200, Mike Honeyfield wrote: > > I trying to find out the prefered GCC version for the kernel today. > > > > The README refers to 2.95.3 as does the Documentation/Changes file. > > However, I am not aware of any modern distro shipping that version of > > GCC. > > > > Has this changed? 2.95.3 is over 4 years old and with GCC 4.0.1 out > > and distros like Fedora using that and many others following suite. > > > > What are people using? Are people maintaining locally a copy of GCC 2.95.3 ? > > I've been compiling 2.6 kernels with gcc 2.95.3, 3.3.5. and 3.4.4 with > no problems. I don't have the impression the 2.6 kernel is completely > ready for gcc 4.0, there are still patches appearing on linux-kernel > but the amount is decreasing. > > The 2.4 kernel (from 2.4.29, IIRC) should be safe to compile with > compilers up to gcc-3.4. > Right, this is pretty much what I figured. I have been using GCC 3.4.4 for build ARM kernels without issue. So it that the docs have not been updated? or is 2.95.3 still the offical prefer GCC? Mike -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
