On 7/30/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > SlackWare uses 3.4.4. > > and as i know 2.95.3 is still offical cc for kernel > > it's slightly different... 2.95.3 is the MINIMUM one you need. THere is > no one prescribed version of gcc for the kernel, it's a whole spectrum > just that the kernel developers won't take patches to work around bugs > in gcc's before 2.95.3 Thank you.. This what I suspected, but could not find confirmation. Thanks to all. Mike -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
