Re: RedHat 7.0

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:02 AM 9/28/2000 -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:52:28 +0200,
> > Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >I'll test at least the beta kernel and then try to compile the cvs kernel.
> > >(but as far as I know there are 2.4 kernel issues with gcc2.96 (which 
> is a
> > >pre snapshot)
> >
> > gcc 2.95 onwards rewrote the ix86 code for function prologues.  kdb
> > backtrace cannot handle the newer prologue code, gdb has problems with
> > it as well.  gcc 2.7.2.3 and gcc 2.91 (egcs-1.1.2) are OK.
>
> I have not checked, but I think redhat ships two compilers, there is a
> kgcc package in the 7.0 release for kernel compilation, not sure of the
> version in it.

I would have to check if it's available. Workstation is upgraded by now and 
running in it's previous state. (always tricky upgrading machines - 
breaking stuff) The standard apache seems broken with some rsa crypto clash 
(php-4.02)

Is the compiler hardcoded in the xfs source? (just checked out cvs tree)
I got the error that gcc-2.91-6 was not available ?!

gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o 
scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
scripts/split-include include/linux/autoconf.h include/config
gcc -V egcs-2.91.66 -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe 
-fno-strength-reduce      -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
gcc: file path prefix `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/' 
never used
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1

??

That should definitely not happen. I did make mrproper before compiling.
make mrproper && make menuconfig && make dep && make bzImage etc..


> Other concerns would be that the binaries of user space which are
> dynamically linked agains glibc will have issues with the newer glibc
> in Redhat 7.0. In theory they would not but.....

Not really found any (yet ;-)
More to come

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Seth
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