Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

Alan Cox
2001-12-04T20:14:30Z

> > So anyone perfectly happy with an older distro that didn't
> > ship python2-and-whatever-else gets screwed when they want to
> > build a newer kernel. Nice.
>
> That's been the case all along, sans python2. Newer kernels need newer
> tools. That's always been the case.

Not during stable releases. In fact we've jumped through hoops several times
to try and keep egcs built kernels working