Re: Re[2]: cannot copy files larger than 40 MB from CD

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:14:39 +0100 (BST)


> > Tried vfat, ext2 and reiserfs.
> >
> > BTW, kernel is compiled with gcc-2.96-85, glibc-2.2.2-10 (RH 7.1) if
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > that matters.
>
> Have you tried compiling your kernel using kgcc?
>
> gcc-2.96.* is known to compile code incorrectly AFAIK, and shouldn't be
> used for compiling kernels. (kgcc is egcs-1.1.2, I think.)

[x86 hat on]

egcs-1.1.2 aka kgcc wont build 2.4.7 it seems. gcc 2.96 >= 2.96.75 or so is
just fine, gcc 2.95-2/3 is fine, gcc 3.0 seems to be doing the right thing
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