Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-04-23T06:56:27Z

On 22 Apr 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> Alan> The recommended compilers for non x86 are different too - eg you
> Alan> need 2.96 gcc for IA64, you need 2.95 not egcs for mips and so
> Alan> on.
>
> In principle you just need 2.7.2.3 for m68k, but someone decided to
> raise the bar for all architectures by putting a check in a common
> header file.

Late 2.3.x proved to be very unstable for user applications (daily cron always
segfaulted somewhere), until I upgraded from 2.7.2.3 to 2.95.2 from Debian.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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