Re: Re[4]: cannot copy files larger than 40 MB from CD

Bill Pringlemeir (bpringle@sympatico.ca)
01 Aug 2001 00:19:06 -0400


>>>>> "Nerijus" == Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
[snip]
Nerijus> As I remember Alan said recent 2.4 kernels should be
Nerijus> compiled with gcc 2.95 or 2.96 (preferably?).

Huh? Might I recommend this (or some variant)?

bb,
Bill Pringlemeir

--- /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes Wed Jun 27 16:37:05 2001
+++ Changes.new Wed Aug 1 00:12:53 2001
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@
necessarily to users of other CPUs. Users of other CPUs should obtain
information about their gcc version requirements from another source.

-The recommended compiler for the kernel is egcs 1.1.2 (gcc 2.91.66), and it
-should be used when you need absolute stability. You may use gcc 2.95.x
-instead if you wish, although it may cause problems. Later versions of gcc
+The recommended compiler for the kernel is gcc 2.95.x. Later versions of gcc
have not received much testing for Linux kernel compilation, and there are
almost certainly bugs (mainly, but not exclusively, in the kernel) that
will need to be fixed in order to use these compilers. In any case, using

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