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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
To: emuller@learningpatterns.com (Edward Muller)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:20:18 +0000 (GMT)
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> > So anyone perfectly happy with an older distro that didn't
> > ship python2-and-whatever-else gets screwed when they want to
> > build a newer kernel. Nice.
> 
> That's been the case all along, sans python2. Newer kernels need newer
> tools. That's always been the case.

Not during stable releases. In fact we've jumped through hoops several times
to try and keep egcs built kernels working
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