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| author | Greg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-18 02:47:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-18 02:47:03 +0000 |
| commit | caaf3432be3969f2e3a1ae92a9b0702e46f77ba0 (patch) | |
| tree | d99dc0452333e05ba2740c5e514d4e22184d0f41 /chapter06 | |
| parent | 8dfb486f7e9bae1ff69edd367186cf84c375e19f (diff) | |
Added rationale notes.
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diff --git a/chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml b/chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml index 33493b269..d229c3f85 100644 --- a/chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml @@ -9,6 +9,18 @@ Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting or modifying them when building GCC.</para> +<para>This is an older release of GCC which we are going to install for the +purpose of compiling the Linux kernel in Chapter 8. This version is recommended +by the kernel developers when you need absolute stability. Later versions of +GCC have not received as much testing for Linux kernel compilation. Using a +later version is likely to work, however, we recommend adhering to the kernel +developer's advice and using the version here to compile your kernel.</para> + +<para>We'll install this older release of GCC into the non-standard prefix of +<filename class="directory">/opt</filename> so as to avoid interfering with +the system GCC already installed in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> + .</para> + <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-2.95.3-2.patch patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-2.95.3-returntype-fix.patch echo timestamp > gcc/cstamp-h.in |