gcc 2.95.4

gcc 2.95.4

[schaecsn]

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Hi

The linux-2.4.12 Changes file mentions this "The recommended compiler
for the kernel is gcc 2.95.3 or .4". 

Actually, the last 2.95 version on ftp.gnu.org is .3 and not .4.

where can I get .4? Isn't that an "offical" release?

- Stefan


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Re: gcc 2.95.4

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:22:01AM -0700, schaecsn wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The linux-2.4.12 Changes file mentions this "The recommended compiler
> for the kernel is gcc 2.95.3 or .4". 
> 
> Actually, the last 2.95 version on ftp.gnu.org is .3 and not .4.
> 
> where can I get .4? Isn't that an "offical" release?

The official release of 2.95.4 has not yet occurred.  However, it is
fairly common for system integrators to ship pre-release versions of
2.95.4 taken from our CVS tree.  These identify themselves like this:

$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)

This practice is safe, since we are conservative about changes applied
to the 2.95.x CVS branch, and the integrators presumably do their own
testing.

The advice you quote is meant to reassure users that it is okay to use
these pre-release versions to compile the Linux kernel.

zw

Re: gcc 2.95.4

[=?unknown-8bit?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier]

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schaecsn wrote:

> where can I get .4? Isn't that an "offical" release?

If you moved to 3.0.X and want 2.95.4 CVS to compile the
kernel (I compiled 2.4.10 with egcs 1.1.2) and GNU C Library,
among others, then you can download gcc-core-2.95.3.tar.bz2
(maybe you want the g++ part. I don't) and use 'cvs rdiff -u
-r gcc-2_95_3 -r gcc-2_95-branch gcc > gcc-2.95.4.patch'.
Apply the patch and compile. Yes, there's a problem. The
patch is huge (~4Mb) because ~95% is a testsuite. Maybe you
can kill cvs after gcc/libiberty/memchr.c (the last file in
my cut down patch).

I applied another patch from Jakub Jelinek:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-08/msg00156.html

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