On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 09:09:17AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:19 PM Tony Luck <tony.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My ia64 test box only has 4.3.4. I seem to remember some pain points > > with newer versions of gcc on ia64. I need to poke around and find one > > new enough to get past this problem, but that still works for kernel > > building. > > I had problems trying to build an up to date (or even a slightly old) > gcc starting from 4.3.4. >
Ah yes, one of those little details: Older versions of gcc don't build anymore with recent versions of gcc. > I did manage to build 4.6.4. > > 4.6.4 built git HEAD* that failed yesterday using 4.3.4. It boots OK. > FWIW, I use gcc 8.1.0 (from kernel.org) for my ia64 test builds. Of course, I have no idea if those builds actually create bootable images. Guenter
