On 7/27/05, Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli <chbhanukalyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) > I would not have thought RH9 to be considered modern, however, Suse 9.3 seems to only install 1 GCC version: michael@nemausa:~> gcc gcc gccbug gccmakedep michael@nemausa:~> gcc But my question is stiil, is 2.95.3 the offical compiler for the kernel despite the fact that the major distros do not use it to build their kernels. Mike -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
