Re: make xconfig fails for older kernels

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 03:12:28PM +0100, Felix Oxley wrote:
> 
> >Felix Oxley wrote:
> >
> >>I think you have nailed it.  I'm using GCC 4.0.2. Incidentally the 
> >>first 2.6 kernel in which this issue was resolved is 2.6.9.
> >
> >
> >For the record, the first version of the stock kernel which will build 
> >for me with GCC 4.0.2 is 2.16.12. (Using a minimal .config)
> >
> 
> To clarify, using GCC 4.0.2 I get the following:
> 
> 	<= 2.6.9 	cannot make config/menuconfig/xconfig
> 	2.6.10 + 11	build fails in i386/asm(?)
> 	2.6.12		builds ok

Assuming you are on i386 this 100% what was expected since kernel 2.6.12 
is the first kernel to compile with gcc 4.0 .

> Felix

cu
Adrian

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