From caaf3432be3969f2e3a1ae92a9b0702e46f77ba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Schafer Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:47:03 +0000 Subject: Added rationale notes. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2840 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 +++ chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) 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 @@ +September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - GCC-2.95.3: Added +rationale notes. + September 17th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the acknowledgements page to match the website. 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. +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. + +We'll install this older release of GCC into the non-standard prefix of +/opt so as to avoid interfering with +the system GCC already installed in /usr + . + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf