RE: Build fails on Debian (lenny)

[Adar D. <ad...@vm...>]

> Basically, even though Debian's default gcc
> installation is now 4.3, the Debian kernel is still being built with
> gcc-4.1 for some reason.

I looked up this issue in Debian's bug tracking system and found this bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507629

It's too bad the person who closed the bug report didn't provide much information; I'm still not clear as to why this isn't a problem.