Changeset caaf343

Timestamp:

09/18/2003 02:47:03 AM (21 years ago)

Author:

Greg Schafer <greg@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

ffc7dcf

Parents:

8dfb486

Message:

Added rationale notes.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2840 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -95 +95 @@
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
+rationale notes.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the acknowledgements
 page to match the website.</para></listitem>

chapter06/gcc-2953-inst.xml

@@ -9 +9 @@
 default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
 or modifying them when building GCC.</para>
+
+<para>This is an older release of GCC which we are going to install for the
+purpose of compiling the Linux kernel in Chapter 8. This version is recommended
+by the kernel developers when you need absolute stability. Later versions of
+GCC have not received as much testing for Linux kernel compilation. Using a
+later version is likely to work, however, we recommend adhering to the kernel
+developer's advice and using the version here to compile your kernel.</para>
+
+<para>We'll install this older release of GCC into the non-standard prefix of
+<filename class="directory">/opt</filename> so as to avoid interfering with
+the system GCC already installed in <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
+ .</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-2.95.3-2.patch