On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:29:45PM +0200, Milan Ker?láger enlightened us: > > Milan Ker?láger wrote: > > > What is wrong - you are building kernel with broken compiler even Red > > > Hat does not. Even there is fixed compiler already in place and is > > > usable with not breaking GPL rules. > > > > Oh come on. Not that again. That has all been explained in *detail* in > > <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1402>, where you couldn't explain > > either on where to obtain the gcc the kernel has been compiled with by > > the upstream vendor. > > The SRC packages are available from Beta channel from RHN. There is a > person from your team who exacly know the version. So grab the SRC > package and rebuild. > > If you know GPL you know that this is completly safe. > > Building broken kernel is WRONG. The kernel crashes and you know about > it but do not build the kernel correctly. The kernel does not follow 'as > close as possible' RHEL. This is wroong too as you may read in this > thread. > And how can you prove that building the kernel with a BETA toolchain will not result in a broken kernel as well? Maybe it fixes your problem - if that's the case, feel free to get the BETA toolchain and rebuild for yourself. Johnny has stated that he will continue to use the STABLE, RELEASED toolchain. End of discussion. > So what are you doing guys? Rules that you are do not follow but talking > about following the rules? This is very very sad. > What rule are you referring to? The goal is to make CentOS as *close* to binary compatible as possible, but there is also the goal to make CentOS self-hosting - something that RedHat thus far has not done. > If you know where the source is and you are unable to grab them, write > to me - simple script is able to put them to any FTP site. I'm using > CentOS and RHN too to give back to Red Hat at least a little. As do many CentOS developers and users. Would you like a cookie? Please end this discussion, it will fall on deaf ears until RedHat releases their toolchain as stable. -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263