Re: kgcc now required ??

[Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 11 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> > > Is kgcc now required?  If so what version.  I'm running RH6.2
> > 
> > it's not required, but guys at SGI switched to RH7 and it's kgcc
> > and think that others also did ;-)
> > 
> > just edit Makefile in linux/  comment line with kgcc out and uncomment line
> > with gcc -V 2.91.66
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > - kszysiu
> 
> I suspect I did this in the 2.4.1 merge, I am doing my development on a
> redhat 7 platform. kgcc is no longer a redhat specific thing though, I
> think Mandrake is using it now too.
> 
> If you were successfully compiling xfs beforehand you should still be able
> to do so using the above suggestion.

But can we at least get a decent work-around, that doesn't barf
if kgcc isn't available? It seems rather silly to assume gcc
is borken.

-- 
Jens Axboe