From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 4 12:53:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 802B11520D for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 12:53:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 2772 invoked from network); 4 Aug 1999 19:53:38 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 4 Aug 1999 19:53:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:53:38 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a new kernel In-Reply-To: <199908041945.NAA04766@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > I have a freebsd-stable system. I can't build a kernel for > freebsd-current on that system unless I upgrade my compiler to egcs. > Will this cause problems for our upgrade proceedure? > > gcc 2.7.2.3 doesn't like i386/include/atomic.h. It complains about > bad assmbler contraints. I upgraded a -STABLE system to -CURRENT using source a month or two ago. The first step is to build the new toolchain, so you shouldn't ever be compiling a new kernel with an old compiler. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message