Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

Edward Muller (emuller@learningpatterns.com)
04 Dec 2001 16:03:17 -0500

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 15:20, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > So anyone perfectly happy with an older distro that didn't
> > > ship python2-and-whatever-else gets screwed when they want to
> > > build a newer kernel. Nice.
> >
> > That's been the case all along, sans python2. Newer kernels need newer
> > tools. That's always been the case.
>
> Not during stable releases. In fact we've jumped through hoops several times
> to try and keep egcs built kernels working

Agreed. I spoke a little too broadly. But newer 'trees' (2.0 to 2.2 to
2.4 to 2.5) has always (IIRC) needed newer tools.

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