Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 (new build failure)

[Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>]

Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On 12/15/05, Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote:
>
> > New build failure since -mm2:
> > Config is
> > http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/config/abat/elm3b67
> >
> > I'm guessing it was using gcc 2.95.4, though not sure.
> >
> >   CC      arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> > In file included from include/linux/stddef.h:4,
> >                  from include/linux/posix_types.h:4,
> >                  from include/linux/types.h:13,
> >                  from include/linux/capability.h:16,
> >                  from include/linux/sched.h:7,
> >                  from arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.c:7:
> > include/linux/compiler.h:46: #error Sorry, your compiler is too old/not
> > recognized.
>
>
> support for gcc-2.95 was dropped in -mm3.

Pah. For any good reason? or just people being lazy?
It's worked fine for about 5 years. Difficult to beleive it's suddenly 
unworkable.

m.
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