From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263085AbTJUMRP (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:17:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263088AbTJUMRP (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:17:15 -0400 Received: from smtp1.att.ne.jp ([165.76.15.137]:62643 "EHLO smtp1.att.ne.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263085AbTJUMRK (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:17:10 -0400 Message-ID: <131e01c397cd$082ea3b0$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> From: "Norman Diamond" To: Subject: Re: RH7.3 can't compile 2.6.0-test8 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:14:55 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marco Roeland wrote: > On Monday October 20th 2003 at 16:01 Christian Kujau wrote: > > Norman Diamond schrieb: > > [...] > > > [ndiamond@c1pc40 linux-2.6.0-test8]$ gcc -v > > > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs > > > gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110) > > > [ndiamond@c1pc40 linux-2.6.0-test8]$ rpm -qa binutils > > > binutils-2.11.93.0.2-11 > > > > did you try with a gcc 3.x too? perhaps it's (only) a compiler issue... > > No, you just need to upgrade binutils to version 2.12 or higher, as > mentioned in Documentation/Changes. The gcc version is fine. I disagree with both of you. I downloaded binutils, I think 2.14.96.0 or thereabouts (I'm away from the machine now). It rejected rpm -U because it depends on a version of glibc-devel which is newer than RH 7.3's version of glibc-devel. I didn't examine yet whether it is possible to upgrade glibc-devel without upgrading gcc, and didn't download any version of those yet in order to try binutils again. The Readme for 2.6.0-test6 still said that gcc 2.95 is required (I confess to not reading Readme for test8 yet.) I reported a compilation problem in test6 using gcc 3.2.something in SuSE on a different machine, and it seems believable that gcc 2.95 is still required. As mentioned at the beginning of this thread, I understand that Red Hat's gcc 2.96 is nonstandard. If I make any changes to binutils and glibc-devel and gcc, surely it should be to install gcc 2.95 and related packages which would be compatible with that version. It should not be to install gcc 3.anything, or glibc-devel or binutils that depend on it.