[U-Boot-Users] GCC version for Linux kernel?

Bryan O'Donoghue typedef at eircom.net
Wed Jun 15 10:56:22 CEST 2005


Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 09:12, Marc Leeman wrote:
> 
>>>Warning!  from gcc-3.3 to gcc-3.4 the handling of the attribute
>>>'unused' changed.  For that reason, compiling a linux-2.4 kernel
>>>with gcc-3.4 will break silently!
>>
>>Euhm. I've been doing this for 5 months without any problem for PPC.
>>
> 
> 
> Same here ;)
> 
> Compiling U-Boot (latest CVS) is no problem on gcc-3.4.3, as long, as
> you are not addressing ARM targets and of course it works!
> 
> For kernel compilation, you need at least kernel 2.4.28 or higher when
> using gcc 3.4.x - or some patches that fix these attribute issues
> (and other stuff, that changed)


Ah yes, someone (you?) already mentioned that on linuxppc-embedded.

I run 2.4.28-pre3 !




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