kernel 2.4.16

From: vishal (vishpat_at_techie.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: 27 May 2004 18:07:38 -0700

Hi Everyone

I am a newbie as far as kernel programming goes. However I would like
to offer the following tip to someone like me in the community and
hope to save their time.

I started kernel programming since 6 months ago and since then I never
had a problem compiling with gcc. However when I tried to compile the
2.4.16 kernel without making any changes to it, the compilation
failed. I also spent an entire day figuring out what cud be the
problem. I finally realized that I was running gcc-3.3 while kernel
2.4.16 requires gcc-2.95 to compile. I am the appropriate change in
the top level Makefile and things went fine after that.

I hope this tip helps out some newbies like me.

- Vishal

Relevant Pages