On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:45:10PM +0100, Björn Buske wrote: > "Christian T. Steigies" wrote: > > > Use gcc272 as Richard said, I thought the kernel patches already force you > > to use gcc272? > > This really might be it. All the other dists I had running before had a gcc > 2.7.2 installed. On this particular one, there is only 2.95.4 and 3.0.4 > already installed. I have the gcc272 package. Can I safely "apt-get" that > without it destroying my existing 2.95.4 setup (since that version seems to be > fine for just about everything else I want to compile, and some stuff even > needs at least 2.8... to compile)?
Sure you can, this is Debian not a random collection of rpms ;-) gcc272 was introduced just for this purpose, just just have to change your makefile to use gcc272 instead of gcc, or use the debian kernel-image source package, it should take care of that. Christian
