On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 8:48 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:52:47 -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane said: > > > *** Compiler is too old. > > > > What would be the sanest way to do this? Meaning upgrade gcc and friends ? > > Well... the answer to the posed question is, of course, "install gcc 5.1 or later" I tried to do that believe me I jumped through lots of hoops but uh uh no cigar.. :( > (and even *that* is pretty damned ancient - some of us are chasing problems > with building the kernel with gcc 12. gcc 5.1 was released on 4-22-2015). Show off, I had no idea there was a gcc 12 ( it is so good to hear from you after many moons Valdis how is the Jag and my warmest regards to miss drove a jag did not crash ? :) > > > The meta question is what the <expletive> you're running that 4.9.2 (released > on 10-30-2014) is still the compiler - and what *other* things on your machine > are severely backleveled, particularly security-relevant patches.... Fine you convinced me security is a concern. I got the Debian debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso and did a: sudo dd if=debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdi bs=1024k and I am typing this from a brand new clean install of 5.10.0-11-amd64 ( Codename: Bullseye) I have a *different* setup. See below :-) NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 212.2G 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 19.7G 0 part └─sda6 8:6 0 903M 0 part sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 250G 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 250G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 16.8G 0 part ├─sdb4 8:20 0 1K 0 part ├─sdb5 8:21 0 204G 0 part ├─sdb6 8:22 0 196.9G 0 part ├─sdb7 8:23 0 6.2G 0 part └─sdb8 8:24 0 7.7G 0 part sdc 8:32 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 0 1K 0 part ├─sdc2 8:34 0 232.4G 0 part /media/aruna/linux-next ├─sdc3 8:35 0 232.4G 0 part / └─sdc5 8:37 0 928M 0 part [SWAP] sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom I was running 3.16 something and my setup has a usb dock with a 500GB I boot from. Why ? Just wanted to see if Grub will break ? Sadly as I was already aware Grub does not break :-) Thanks for scaring the sh*ts out of me with the security-relevant pitch. Aruna _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
