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From: | Jere Almey |
Subject: | [gfsd]Linux Kernel Page |
Date: | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:09:17 -0400 |
Sorry to bother you, but I found some incorrect information
on the following page, http://www.gnu.org/directory/linux.html The link to the kernel source tarball; http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.5.5.tar.gz points to nothing, and if read carefully doesn't make any
sense (as it points to a 2.5 kernel in a 2.4 directory). Here is the correct
link to the latest stable kernel release; http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.18.tar.gz
Furthermore, I am curious as to why you would point to a beta
version of the kernel Version 2.5.5 (beta) released on 2002-02-21, which is known to be rather buggy, instead of
the latest stable release, Version 2.4.18 released on 2002-02-25 Under "Related information" under the sub-heading
"Build prerequisites", "gcc 2.6.3 or later" is specified
for the version of the C compiler required. Any recent Linux kernel will not
compile with anything less than gcc version 2.95.3. (I have tried. Bad things
happen.) Furthermore, the kernel documentation states that the following other
packages, with associated version numbers are also prerequisites for kernel
compilation; o Gnu make
3.77
o binutils
2.9.1.0.25
o
util-linux
2.10o
o modutils
2.4.2
o e2fsprogs
1.25
o
reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j
o pcmcia-cs
3.1.21
o PPP
2.4.0
o
isdn4k-utils
3.1pre1
Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope that
you have found this information worthy of that time. :) |
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