Re: Compiling 2.4.0 with "gcc-2.96"

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> I've seen lots of discussion on the reiserfs list about "gcc-2.96". It appear
> s 
> to be Red-Hat specific and should be avoided when compiling a stock kernel. I
>  
> believe Red-Hat put kgcc (using SuSE so can't confirm) on for compatibility 
> reasons. gcc-2.95.2 is the latest on gnu.org's ftp site. 2.4.0 test kernels 
> would compile with it. I haven't tried the 2.4 yet.
> 

I think you will find that 2.95.2 exhibits similar problems with XFS - there
was also a bug in the code generated for XFS which stopped it from working.
Since the rest of the kernel compiles with the newer compilers now, XFS should
probably do so too.

Steve

p.s. Just in case people did not notice the email address - I am back at SGI 
again.