On 7/27/05, Mike Honeyfield <mike.honeyfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > 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. AFAIK, Red Hat Linux ships a modern gcc AND a gcc old version which possibly should be used to compile the kernel. You can check this out by giving bash# gcc<TAB><TAB> to check out the versions. For example on my RHL 9 (2.4.20-8, recommended compiler: gcc 2.95.3) box, I have the following output [root]# gcc<TAB><TAB> gcc gcc296 gccmakedep [root]# gcc -v ...... gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) [root]# gcc296 -v ....... gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-118) > > 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 ? > > Thanks. > > Mike > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > Bhanu. -- The difference between Theory and Practice is more so in Practice than in Theory. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
