Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

John Cowan
2001-05-18T16:03:33Z

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.

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