Which egcs ?

Which egcs ?

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

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Hi. What's the recommended (or most stable) release of egcs ?
1.1.2 (egcs_1_1_2_release) or egcs_ss_19990913
(egcs_latest_snapshot), or any other snapshot ?

If 1.1.2, are that any problems fixed by patches ?

BTW, is it OK to compile egcs with GNU C Library 2.2.4 ? I
only need the C part to compile the Kernel and a few
applications for my rescue disk.

TIA.

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Re: Which egcs ?

[mike stump]

> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:23:58 -0300
> From: =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>
> To: mike stump <mrs@windriver.com>

> "COMPILING the kernel:

> - Make sure you have gcc-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) available. gcc 2.95.2
> may also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2.3 is no longer
> supported*."

> What I want to know is what's the recommended (or most stable)
> release of egcs. 1.1.2 (egcs_1_1_2_release) or egcs_ss_19990913
> (egcs_latest_snapshot), or any other snapshot.

If the kernel people recommend 1.1.2, then 1.1.2 is what you should
use.  You can find that on the web site, or you can get it via
egcs_1_1_2_release and cvs.

> If 1.1.2, are that any problems fixed by patches ?

No.  If there were, the kernel folks would recommend them by name.

Re: Which egcs ?

[Per Bothner]

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Frédéric L. W. Meunier <0@pervalidus.net> writes:

> I know, but egcs is still the recommended compiler for Kernel
> 2.4:
> 
> "COMPILING the kernel:
> 
> - Make sure you have gcc-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) available. gcc 2.95.2 may
>   also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2.3 is no longer supported*."
> 
> and rescue disks (to save space).

Then ask the kernel people.  If they want to recommend an old
compiler version, we cannot stop them, but we have nothing to
do with their recommendation.
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	--Per Bothner
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Re: Which egcs ?

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:20:03AM -0700, mike stump wrote:
> > Hi. What's the recommended (or most stable) release of egcs ?
> 
> Egcs is dead.  Egcs is gcc.  The latest release of gcc can be found on
> our web site.  http://gcc.gnu.org Let use know if the web site doesn't
> make it clear.

I know, but egcs is still the recommended compiler for Kernel
2.4:

"COMPILING the kernel:

- Make sure you have gcc-2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) available. gcc 2.95.2 may
  also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2.3 is no longer supported*."

and rescue disks (to save space).

What I want to know is what's the recommended (or most
stable) release of egcs. 1.1.2 (egcs_1_1_2_release) or
egcs_ss_19990913 (egcs_latest_snapshot), or any other
snapshot.

If 1.1.2, are that any problems fixed by patches ?

And if it's OK to compile egcs with GNU C Library 2.2.4. Or
it generates wrong code. I only need the C part.

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Re: Which egcs ?

[mike stump]

> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:24:05 -0300
> From: =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org

> Hi. What's the recommended (or most stable) release of egcs ?

Egcs is dead.  Egcs is gcc.  The latest release of gcc can be found on
our web site.  http://gcc.gnu.org Let use know if the web site doesn't
make it clear.