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

David Weinehall
2001-12-04T19:51:02Z

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:43:17PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > After CML2 has proven itself in 2.5, I do plan to go back to Marcelo
> > and lobby for him accepting it into 2.4, on the grounds that doing so
> > will simplify his maintainance task no end.
> > ...
> > I'm just going to say "Today's problems, today's tools."
>
> 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.

"So anyone happy with an older distro that didn't ship gcc-2.95.x, x > 2
gets screwed when they want to build a newer kernel. Nice."

/David
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