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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2007 20:56:58 -0000
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>
Cc:        Bj?rn K?nig <bjoern.koenig@alpha-tierchen.de>, Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS DOWN: gcc 4.2 import
Message-ID:  <20070516205653.GA62177@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <7579f7fb0705161228n1b06d8bel8d7435a9ace56e4e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:28:51PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >>
> >> Do I take this to mean "not yet" for patches to try?
> >
> >Symbol versioning only affects userland libraries and linker.  It
> >shouldn't matter for kernel code that you're looking to validate.
> >
> 
> Well, sure, in which case I just might as well build gcc4.2 stock
> rather than apply patches to the tree.

I dont think that will work.. we have some printf changes etc. iirc
so you cannot build kernel with stock gcc. just use what kan@ provides
on the web. I am sure he wont mind some testing

roman



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