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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 21:03:34 +0100
From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:53:11PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK, changes to the required versions of userland-tools wouldn't
during a stable release happen ever-so-often. I can agree that it
wouldn't be ideal to introduce a completely new requirement, though.

A C-version of CML2-configurator would be a nice solution here.

But, I'm fairly confident that Marcello will make the right decisions
on his own.


/David
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