From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, mythos <papadako@csd.uoc.gr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:30:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26559.988119009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104241328.f3ODSFrn011684@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <200104241328.f3ODSFrn011684@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl said:
> These "broken and cryptic" checks have been done several times now.
> You could certainly add a note to this effect to the documentation on
> building the kernel.
> Building a known broken kernel just for the sake of "better error
> reporting" is dead wrong, IMO.
The fact that the error is reported in a cryptic fashion is a minor issue.
The important point is that the check itself is broken and not guaranteed
to work even with good compilers.
--
dwmw2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-24 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-23 13:13 Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc mythos
2001-04-23 14:48 ` Russell King
2001-04-23 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-23 15:52 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 17:57 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-23 19:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-23 20:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 21:03 ` Matan Ziv-Av
2001-04-23 21:16 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 22:32 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-04-23 22:54 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-24 8:53 ` Russell King
2001-04-24 12:37 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 22:25 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-23 22:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-24 13:28 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-24 13:30 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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