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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, David Weinehall wrote:

> "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."

The difference being that recommended compiler versions don't
change midway through a stable series. Neither should any other
part of the buildtools.

regards,
Dave.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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