Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 21 May 2001 11:52:17 -0400 (EDT)


On 21 May 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105210205520.1590-100000@asdf.capslock.lan>,
> Mike A. Harris <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote:
> >For the record, the kgcc "mess" you speak of was used by
> >Conectiva, and I believe also by debian
>
> Debian never had that mess.

I think that Mike refers to gcc272 being used as a kernel compiler
for quite a while and gcc-2.95 being used the same way in -testing.

<shrug> having different compilers for kernel and userland is not
pretty, but there's no way to avoid it at some points in cycle.

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