[H-GEN] redhat 7.0

[David Starkoff]

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At 2000-10-01T13:09+1000, Rob Kearey wrote:

> RH 7.0 comes with gcc 2.96, and gcc 2.91 for kernel compilation. When
> 2.2.18 is released it'll have some logic in the build scripts to
> detect and use the correct compiler.

I'm not sure if this is the logic which the 2.2.18 kernel will employ
(it's been in the pre-patches from pre12 or so I believe), but what
worked for me with Red Hat Pinstripe (I haven't upgraded to Guiness yet)
is if you change the CC definition in /usr/src/linux/Makefile to

CC      =$(CROSS_COMPILE)kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)

If you have the kgcc RPM installed, then it should all be fine and
dandy.

[dbs at cardozo ~]$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 20000724 (experimental)
[dbs at cardozo ~]$ kgcc -v
Reading specs from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-glibc21-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)

David.
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