Re: [Plib-users] Library Initialization

[Sam S. <sa...@sp...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Baker" <sjb...@ai...>
To: <pli...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Plib-users] Library Initialization


> Sam Stickland wrote:
>
> > > You might want to downgrade your gcc to something that works.  RedHat
> > > are coming in for a lot of flak over their decision to ship a
relatively
> > > poorly tested beta version.
> >
> > No need.  Type recompiling everything with kgcc instead of gcc. kgcc is
the
> > Linus blessed version for compiling kernals.
>
> I havn't heard of that.  It's not installed on SuSE Linux.

I think it's only on RedHat 7.0 as a getout for Alan Cox's decision to  the
development release of gcc.

> > alias gcc kgcc
> >
> > might do the trick
>
> ...and g++ ==> kg++ ?
>
> I don't think an 'alias' will work BTW, the Makefile system probably uses
> bash or something.

Yeah, I was thinking it might do that but I don't have to much experience
with the way Unix shells handle their environments.  I supposed you could
add the aliases to.bashrc but to...

> rename the original gcc/g++ to something else and
> symlink to them to kgcc or whatever.

...is probably a better solution.

Sam