[oclug] kernel compiles with gcc 3.1

[Bart Trojanowski]

* Gilles J. Seguin <segg at infonet.ca> [020802 23:36]:
> May be very important if previous compiler was 2.96.x
> Program compile with c++ are binary incompatible

It was the driver that was hanging.  All programs involved are C
programs... ifconfig, iwconfig, pluto, route, iproute.

> > LESSON: don't try to compile 2.4.19 with gcc 3.1.
> 
> Rawhide is actually on kernel 2.4.18, version 234661414611461661

I don't run redhat kernels.

> Rawhide is actually on GNU Compiler Collection 3.2, version 483482729348892
> Are you sure that the problem is not with the linker or the assembler.

s/3.1/3.2/ 

:)

> Since then, for me, it is not the compiler that is deficient but
> the kernel.

I would not say that either is deficient... it just does not work in
this case.  I had noted that by themselves swan and my wireless drivers
worked fine... they just didn't play nice when the whole shibang was
compiled with gcc3.2.

B.

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