[H-GEN] redhat 7.0

[Rob Kearey]

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Sandra Milne wrote:

> after repeated attempts and a complete reinstall, i have discovered that
> redhat 7.0 will not compile a 2.2 kernel. at present i'm successfully
> compiling 2.4.0-test8.... and praying that it will boot.

It should. It did for me.

> unforunately this is contrary to the information redhat gave out prior to
> the release of 7.0 which basically said that it would come with 2.2
> support and 2.4 would be added later.

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.

> Sandra.

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Rob Kearey
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