Re: recommended compiler?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 03:42 20-1-2003 +0900, Seung-yeong Oh wrote:
>Hello,
>I'm still trying to figure out what the source of my problem is;
>
>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/200301/msg00194.html
>
>Anyway, what is the recommended compiler for XFS 1.2? Up to 1.1, I've
>read that SGI developer team recommends kgcc in the Makefile, I don't
>see that sort of NOTE in the Makefile in kernel
>2.4.18-18SGI_XFS_1.2pre5.

I build my kernels with gcc-2.96 these days which seem to do fine. The kgcc 
was mainly needed in the pre 11 releases.

A lot of people use the (updated!) 2.96 which seems to work fairly well.

>If kernel rpm with XFS1.2 is made for RedHat 8.0 AND RedHat8.0 uses gcc3
>as the default compiler, then would the binary made in RedHat7.x cause
>some sort of problems when the default compiler in RedHat7.x is used,
>which is ver. 2.96?

I suspect that using gcc-3.0 will turn up more problems then compiling with 
2.96. I don't even have one 8.0 box around to compile those things.

>Also, what about glibc version? The main reason I rebuilt kernel source
>rpm with XFS 1.2 was that the binary rpm's were built with glibc2.3. If
>binary cmd & kernel rpm's made with glibc2.2 in RedHat7.x are used,
>would that cause some compatibility issue?

I don't see why the kernel needs to have a glibc dependency. The same 
sources build fine on a glibc-2.2 system along as you do a make mrproper 
before building.

Cheers

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Seth
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