Re: 5000 emails later, compressed summary ;)

SL Baur (steve@xemacs.org)
04 Jun 1998 02:48:35 -0700


ketil <ketil@ii.uib.no> writes:

> Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
>> #if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 6)
>> #error sorry, your GCC is too old. It builds incorrect kernels.
>> +#elif __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 7)
>> +#error sorry, your GCC is too new. 2.0.x kernels should be compiled with GCC 2.7.2.x
>> #endif

> Just in case this is meant seriously, could we have #warn instead of
> #error? So that I won't have to /&%$$%## fix things every time I patch
> up my tree.

I also trust this wasn't meant seriously.

It's annoying enough to have to patch in sound support for a sound
card with driver support about a year old[1] without also having to
defeat a stupid Makefile conditional.

- Typed from an XEmacs running on the just-released Linux 2.0.34
compiled with Pgcc while listening to realaudio.

Footnotes:
[1] Referring to SoundBlaster AWE cards.

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