Re: [linux-lvm] lvm 0.9 kernel build problems

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:44:49AM -0600, Chewie wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:47:09PM +0100, Falcon wrote:
> > You must to change gcc by kgcc in the Makefile
> 
> <rant>
> Is it just me, or does this sound like a Red Hat-like solution?  Gee.
> Let's package an old version of gcc just so we can compile the kernel
> correctly.  We can't simply use a stable gcc as our standard compiler.
> We have to reach back into the bag of the ancients to keep our
> machines running and make it LOOK like we're using the bleeding edge
> with gcc 2.96!
> </rant>

	If I'm not mistaken, the reasons the new gcc won't compile the
kernel have more to do with the kernel than with the new gcc.  This
problem has happened several times in the past, and it was usually (with
one notable exception in gcc 2.7.1) the kernel's fault.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
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be properly armed.  -- Alexander Hamilton
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --

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