[lug] compiling kernel 2.4.0 (a note for RH7 users)

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:03:37AM -0700, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, couldn't one just put gcc 2.91.66, or 2.95.2 for that
>matter, on their RH 7 machine and all would work fine?

It's already on there, called "kgcc":

   guin:kernelpool$ kgcc -v
   Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-glibc21-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
   gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)

If you do "make CC=kgcc", you will get 2.91.66.

Sean
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