Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030268AbWARHAs (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:00:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030263AbWARHAr (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:00:47 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:47493 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030268AbWARHAq (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:00:46 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 -- which gcc version? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jeff Chua Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: References: <20060117183916.399b030f.diegocg@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:00:40 +0100 Message-Id: <1137567640.3005.64.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 08:22 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > > Which gcc version should I use, now that gcc-2.95.3 can't compile > 2.6.16-rc1 anymore? gcc-3.3 as mentioned in the patch? alternative is to just use any compiler that came with a distro, and is at least of 3.2 vintage. (the 3.3 thing is mostly for arm; 3.2 on arm seemed to not have been a good thing). Distros usually put in fixes to gcc that are from higher/later versions, eg gcc.gnu.org releases sometimes have a few bad bugs at release time that will get fixed later, while the distros put those fixes in immediately. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/