On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, David Engel wrote: > The kernel can still be compiled in a.out format. The a.out > development tools aren't completely going away. They just won't be > the default. If you really want to compile 1.2.13 in ELF format, I > suggest you politely request Linus to update it one last time.
As I remember, from trying to get a 1.3 kernel to compile with debian's gcc-elf, the Makefiles for the kernel don't seem to be set up in such a way as to make it easy to redefine and then propogate $(CC) -- which would seem necessary to use 'gcc -b i486-linuxaout'. I guess it is worth while to at least find out if 1.2.14 is totally out of the question --- I seem to remember a few other small bugfixes which were slated to appear. Mike. -- "I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."
