[CALUG] GCC Woes

[Ben W]

Please disregard this, I've dug up an old debian package and will approach
this via that route. Linux is to learning curves as Everest is to rolling
hills.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Ben W <bigmojo74 at gmail.com> 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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