Re: [gentoo-dev] some portage related issues

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:35:36PM +0300, Dan Podeanu wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier@g.o>
> To: <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] some portage related issues
>
>
> > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 01:14 pm, Dan Podeanu wrote:
> > > 1. Kernel compilation and gcc
> > >
> > > The recommended gcc version for kernel compile is gcc 2.95.3. Using
> emerge
> > > to get any of the supported kernel packages should have a dependency set
> on
> > > 2.95.3 and a message informing the users to use gcc-config to change the
> > > gcc version while compiling the kernel (great tool gcc-config, btw.)
> >
> > theres no way this is ever going to happen, end of story.
> > you want gcc-2.x on your system for some reason, emerge it.
>
> The standard Gentoo installation requires one to recompile the linux kernel.
> A kernel WILL NOT be 100% stable if its compiled with a 3.3.x gcc, although
> this will be only really visible in certain conditions (higher traffic in
> terms of requests, cpu load, etc. generally server usage).

Where do you get your information to back this up?  I would think that
the companies who rely on stable kernels would have done a bit of
testing to ensure that 3.2 and 3.3 works just fine as they build their
kernels with that.

> # grep 2.95.3 /usr/src/linux-2.4.24-xfs-r5/README
>  - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available.  gcc 2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) may
>
> Please note, not 2.95.3 and above (re: Greg KH). And again, compiled with
> 3.3.2 the kernel behaves strange, as opposed to when its compiled with
> 2.95.3. But thats just personal experience.

Then file a bug about it at bugzilla.kernel.org and the kernel
developers will fix it.

thanks,

greg k-h

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