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diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 1ad9da48d..c01e9b0a9 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - GCC-2.95.3: Added +rationale notes.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the acknowledgements page to match the website.</para></listitem> 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 |