[64studio-devel] Re: build-essential out of date?

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> Daniel James writes:

  DJ> Hi Alexander,
  >>Your kernel was built with "gcc" version " 4.1.2", while you are
  >>trying to use "/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.0.4".

  DJ> We did include 4.0.3-4 in the 0.9.4 release, but 4.1.1-7 is now
  DJ> available from Debian testing.

The gcc-4.1 was included  too in 0.9.4, but  it's not yet  the default
compiler  for Etch, so at  the moment you  have  to select it manually
(/usr/bin/gcc-4.1) or change the symlink /usr/bin/gcc.

For the final release it's probably better to set this automatically.

  >>I also searched the internet for gcc 4.1.2, with no luck.

  DJ> According to the roadmap here:

  DJ> http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html

  DJ> version 4.1.2 is planned, but has not yet been released. Any idea how
  DJ> this happened, Free?

Well, as you can see from:

[ free at 64studio:]~ $ zmore /usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.17-1-multimedia-amd64-k8/buildinfo.gz 
------> /mnt/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.17-1-multimedia-amd64-k8/buildinfo.gz <------
binutils-2.17-1
dpkg-1.13.22
dpkg-dev-1.13.22
gcc-4.1.1-5
gcc-4.0-4.0.3-5
gcc-4.0-base-4.0.3-5
gcc-4.1-4.1.1-9
gcc-4.1-base-4.1.1-9
libc6-2.3.6-15
libc6-dev-2.3.6-15
make-3.81-2
perl-5.8.8-6
this was built on a machine with the kernel:
Linux 64studio 2.6.17-1-multimedia-amd64-k8 #1 PREEMPT Tue Jul 18 17:15:52 UTC 2
006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
using the compiler:
gcc version 4.1.2 20060715 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-9)
kernel source package used:
applied kernel patches:

the compiler used  for building the kernel is  the one included in the
Debian package gcc-4.1, version  4.1.1-9, for some reason  the version
that gcc  prints is "4.1.2  20060715 (prerelease)",  however it should
perfectly fine to use the Debian package gcc-4.1 included in the 0.9.4
to build modules for it.

Ciao,

Free