Re: recommended compiler?

[Andrew Fant <fant@pobox.com>]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Seth Mos wrote:

> At 03:42 20-1-2003 +0900, Seung-yeong Oh wrote:
> >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.

I have been using the XFS sources kernel in Gentoo 1.4_rc1 and rc2 (which
uses gcc3.2 and glibc2.3) for the past 4 months without any troubles.
Yes, gcc 3.2 is rather anal, but most of the problems I have seen are
with c++ idioms that the development team disapproves of.  The kernel with
XFS compiles with nary a hitch.

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