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From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6-test2: gcc-3.3.1 warning.
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:20:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030729102007.GC1286@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030729101126.GC29124@werewolf.able.es>

> [jamagallon@able.es]
> 
> > Does Mandrake also ship "stable" distributions w/ kernels compiled using
> > gcc 3.3-whatever or is that idiocy suse-specific?
> 
> Tell me a distro that ships pristine www.kernel.org kernels o release
> gcc's, without any 'backported patch from xxx-1234 to correct PR1234'.

Slackware (whenever possible).

> What is the difference between backporting a patch from 3.3.1-pre to 3.3,
> and using 3.3.1-pre directly ? Ah, that you get less bug corrected.

Large.  3.3 is a development series.  It DOES introduce new stuff.

In production environments you definitely want to stick with 3.2.3
or (better yet) 2.95.3.

$ head -4 Makefile 
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
SUBLEVEL = 22
EXTRAVERSION = -pre8
$ grep 'recommended compiler' Documentation/Changes 
The recommended compiler for the kernel is gcc 2.95.x (x >= 3), and it

> And no, at least in my case, this is not a stable Mandrake, it is Cooker,
> the equivalent of RawHide. Latest stable shiped a kernel built with 3.2.3,

Ok.

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-29 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-28 12:40 2.6-test2: gcc-3.3.1 warning Luiz Capitulino
2003-07-28 20:29 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-07-28 22:50 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-29  0:22   ` Kurt Wall
2003-07-29  4:55     ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-29  9:28       ` J.A. Magallon
2003-07-29  9:35         ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-29  9:48           ` J.A. Magallon
2003-07-29  9:58             ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-29 10:11               ` J.A. Magallon
2003-07-29 10:20                 ` Tomas Szepe [this message]
2003-07-29 11:57                   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 15:35                     ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-17  1:25                       ` Richard Henderson
2003-08-17  1:34                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-17  2:04                           ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-07-29 12:34                   ` Jakub Jelinek

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