From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EhCnH-0007uy-9k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:13:43 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EhCn6-0007rP-4h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:13:42 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhCn5-0007rL-Ur for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:13:32 -0500 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EhCn5-0004PK-1b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:13:31 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EhCkR-0001ak-6N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:10:47 +0100 Received: from vol75-6-82-228-67-28.fbx.proxad.net ([82.228.67.28]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:10:47 +0100 Received: from charpent by vol75-6-82-228-67-28.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:10:47 +0100 From: Emmanuel Charpentier Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:07:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20051128165951.GA28507@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <20051128223508.GA9087@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debian blues (Re: Problem compiling with gcc 3.3 on 2.6.14 (Debian)) Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: > Hi, > > >>Case in point : I distinctly reember reading a convoluted thread in one >>of the Debian lists about this /etc/alternative issue for gcc... Was I >>drunk ? Or what ? > > > I don't know what all this rant is about The idiocy of having a system perfectly able to handle alternative packages ... except when it isn't, for reasons too obscure to be understood by a 31-year computer user (yes, I wrote my first Fortran program in 1974..) when he isnt a dedicated system maintainer. I *use* computers, dammit, I have not too much time to play system administrator.... > but it's always best to keep the > system compiler as chosen by the distributor. That's exactly what I was trying to do. Debian has switched to GCC 4 for kernels. But (parts of) QEMU) need gcc 3.4. Hence the raindance.. > If you want to use > alternatives, use CC overrides or other configure option. I missed the doc-"howto" for these options. Last time I tried, I ended up with "Incorrect module format" errores and/or bad compilations errors. I gave up and learned to change compilers... >>If you can suggest a more steamlined way, I'd be happy to hear from it, >>and even more happy to read it on Fabrice's pages or somewhere in the >>documentation... > > > Use DKMS for kqemu modules? No such thing on Debian. They have a (supposedly) nice system ("module-assistant") for compilong out-of-tree modules... which I never quite figured out. When I need an out-oft-tree kernel (which is rare nowadays), I still roll my own kernel, à la Neanderthal... Emmanuel Charpentier