Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:28:14 -0400

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> said:
> vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl said:
> > Your patch (tries to) transform a compile and link time check into a
> > runtime check. Not nice.

> It transforms a broken and cryptic compile-time check into a correct and
> informative runtime check.

These "broken and cryptic" checks have been done several times now. You
could certainly add a note to this effect to the documentation on building
the kernel.

Building a known broken kernel just for the sake of "better error
reporting" is dead wrong, IMO.

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