From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:03:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:03:23 -0400 Received: from mail.reutershealth.com ([204.243.9.36]:19397 "EHLO mail.reutershealth.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:03:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3B05473B.70606@reutershealth.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:00:59 -0400 From: John Cowan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Jes Sorensen , esr@thyrsus.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up In-Reply-To: <20010505192731.A2374@thyrsus.com> <20010513112543.A16121@thyrsus.com> <20010515173316.A8308@thyrsus.com> <3B054500.2090408@reutershealth.com> <20010518175843.A9347@caldera.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:51:28AM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > >>Jes Sorensen wrote: >> >> >>>Telling them to install an updated gcc for kernel compilation >>>is a necessary evil, which can easily be done without disturbing the >>>rest of the system. Updating the system's python installation is not a >>>reasonable request. >>> >> >>Au contraire. It is very reasonable to have both python and python2 >>installed. Having two different gcc versions installed is a big pain >>in the arse. >> > > Fump. Some distributions do even come with two gcc's out of the box. > With the whole egcs and gcc2.95 (dunno about 3.0) you can even share > the compiler driver if you want. Yes, I should have limited myself to pre-egcs versions. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein