[CALUG] GCC Woes

[Jim Sansing]

I'm not an expert, but when I played with Gentoo, the full install 
required a GCC bootstrap.  Maybe you can find some help there.

Later . . .   Jim


Ben W wrote:
> I'm in the process of trying to go from the 2.6.x kernel to 2.4.x, 
> everything works wonderfuly until I try make zImage, everything I've 
> looked at and found online indicates that I need to roll back to an 
> older version of gcc (2.95.3) to properly compile the kernel. I hate 
> to keep tossing noob questions to the group, but I've downloaded and 
> unpacked gcc-2.95.3, read it's install files, beaten google bloody 
> looking for examples, and I simply can't get my head around how to set 
> the options.
>  
> In short if anyone has any experience with manual installs of gcc, 
> even if it's just documentation (other than GNU's lack thereof) I'll 
> be eternaly grateful. I'm running Debian on a x86 cpu and simply 
> cannot grasp how to set the --target and --host options of 
> ./configure, once that runs succesfuly I should be in the clear.
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