gcc 2.96 on Fedora Core 1

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Flavius Copaciu wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Flavius Copaciu wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am having troubles compiling the kernel after applying the SCTP patch
>>> from www.openss7.org.
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> The question is: how do I tell “make” to use gcc 2.96 instead of gcc 
>>> 3.3.2 ?
>> 
>> 
>> The FC1 kernel requires gcc 3.2.3 to compile.  The gcc32 RPM has the
>> compiler you need.  Then builing d with CC=gcc32 should work.
>> 
>
> I am not trying to compile the FC1 kernel, I am trying to compile a 2.4.22 
> kernel (from kernel.org) patched with the SCTP patch from openss7.org.
>
> However, I have installed gcc32 RPM and tried building with CC=gcc32 as 
> suggested. No luck, I get the same error. According to the patch maintainer I 
> should be able to successfully compile with gcc 2.96. How do I do that? Well 
> that's may 1.000.000.€ question!

What you are looking for is 'compat-gcc' which is probably already installed
on your FC1 box - and use it with 'make CC=gcc296'

[asterix]: rpm -qf /usr/bin/gcc296 
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118
[asterix]: cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
[asterix]:


Satish