Re: [Devil-linux-develop] fedora core 2

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> >> > HZ> is anybody compiling DL under Fedora Core 2 ?
>> >> > Yes I am.
>> >> > HZ> I just upgraded 2 boxes and now I have all kinds of problems...
>> >> > I have no problem (1.2 only)
>> >>
>> >> I tried 1.2 and 1.3. I expect you did compile for Kernel 2.4 ?
>> >
>> > You can compile DL for kernel 2.4 but not 2.6?
>>
>> Both don't work and at least the 2.4 must....
>>
>> > Where does it abort?  On the kernel compile?
>>
>> No, different places. Currently one  machine doesn't like gcc, the other
>> pwlib. Both applications shouldn't cause any trouble, they didn't get
>> modified for quite a while.
>
> That's really weird.  I'm not a big fan of Fedora.  I switched to SuSE
> shortly after upgrading to FC1 and running into problems (not DL
> related).  I haven't tried FC2, but I've heard of other people having
> problems.  (YMMV :)

Yeah I get that impression, too.

>> > I'm running SuSE 9.1 (2.6 kernel based), and haven't had any problems
>> > compiling a 2.4 DL, but I haven't tried compiling a 2.6 DL.
>>
>> It's probably worth a try with SuSE 9.1.
>
> I can run a 2.6 compile on SuSE 9.1 and see what happens.  What should,
> or shouldn't I select in menuconfig?  Is there a profile for 2.6?

No need for this, but thanks anyway.
The 2.6 compile is not stable yet, I actually had on my list for this week
to fix most of the problems there.
But as I mentioned, the 2.4 compile *must* work...

I'm currently downloading the personal edition of suse 9.1, this is enough
to do some testing.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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