On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:16:27PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:23:02PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > I also don't understand why the gcc version is an issue. I mean, you > > can compile a library with one version of gcc and link to it when > > compiling a program with a different version of gcc. We are even > > talking about C, which AFAICT doesn't suffer the same binary > > compatibility issues as C++. > > The kernel enables or disables many different things depending on the > version of gcc to work around different issues. Because of this, the > main kernel, and all kernel modules must be built with the exact same > version of gcc, otherwise very bad things can happen. > > greg k-h
Thanks for explaining. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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