Re: gcc-2.96-nn status

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:19 18-9-2001 -0400, Alan Eldridge wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:14:47PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote:
> >At 12:40 18-9-2001 -0400, Alan Eldridge wrote:
> >>I'm trying to configure my build system to make RPMS for one of our
> >>comrades-in-XFS, and I've hit a big stumbling block.
> >>
> >>RedHat's RPMS now build with gcc-2.96-74 or higher. Kgcc is probably going
> >>to go away (I can find out I think). But you can't build an athlon kernel
> >>with kgcc.
> >
> >I can, altough it does not have as many optimizations. So I only think that
> >the runtime speed would be affected. The linux kernel already knows what a
> >Athlon processor is and what to do with it. I think this makes a larger
> >difference then the compiler.
> >
>
> Umm, how? rpm --target athlon causes gcc to be invoked with -march=athlon,
> which kgcc knows nothing about so it dies.

You can specify a target of i686 and have a kernel config for athlon/duron 
systems

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.