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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-01-08 12:04:09 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-09 07:14:02 +0300
commita1365647022eb05a5993f270a78e9bef3bf554eb (patch)
tree6dbcab4db80b7d07fdaec88c003743d1f6e1a289 /README
parentfd285bb54d8a3e99810090ae88cfe8ed77d1da25 (diff)
downloadlinux-a1365647022eb05a5993f270a78e9bef3bf554eb.tar.xz
[PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers. From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2. Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -183,11 +183,8 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
COMPILING the kernel:
- - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available.
- gcc 2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2), and gcc 2.7.2.3 are known to miscompile
- some parts of the kernel, and are *no longer supported*.
- Also remember to upgrade your binutils package (for as/ld/nm and company)
- if necessary. For more information, refer to Documentation/Changes.
+ - Make sure you have at least gcc 3.2 available.
+ For more information, refer to Documentation/Changes.
Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel.