Re: tlug: xset

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Fredric Fredricson wrote:

> 
> 
> Darren Cook wrote:
> > 
> > >something's trying to open the display.  OH, yeah, Slackware compiles
> > >their 2.0.x kernels with egcs (morons!  At comdex they said that "they
> > >...
> > >* Note, TL, SuSE, and RH compile kernels with the older gcc, and they
> > 
> > Is this egcs/gcc thing just because egcs is still beta software, and has
> > more bugs, or is it some problem that will always be in egcs?
> > 
> >From somebody with big ears but little actual knowledge (meaning: this 
> is just hearsay):
> The kernel depends on non-standard features like inlined assembler and
> stuff. This is why the compiler matters. This is why egcs might be a bad idea.
> On the other hand, I might be wrong....

It's a problem with bad ASM code in the 2.0.x kernels - 2.1.x and
(someday) 2.2.x will build fine with either compiler.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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