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locutus@m150.aone.net.au (Bill LaGrue) writes:

>	I recently upgraded GCC 2.6.3 to 2.7.0, and now I cant compile any new
>kernels.  It gets through "make config" ok, but when it gets to
>configuring the sound driver it stops with "-Qy unknown option".  Have
>I set up GCC wrong or is there some fix for this?  I'm using Slackware
>2.3, and am using the 1.2.8 kernel, and have tried re-compiling 1.2.8,
>1.2.13 and 1.3.17, and they all stop with the same error.  If I skip
>the sound driver, it gets through "make config" but bombs out on "make
>dep" with the same "-Qy unknown option" error.  I have also installed
>libc version 5.0.9 and libg++ 2.6.2.5, all from a slackware
>distribution disk.  As of yet I havent tried compiling anything else.
>I have also tried installing GCC 2.7.2 and the same problem occurred.
>Any help would be appreciated.

gcc 2.7.x is ELF.  Your old 2.6.3 was a.out (almost certainly).

You wont be able to compile any 1.2.x kernel as ELF without applying
patches to them.  For 1.2.13, try using this patch:

ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu
/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/source/kernel-source/v1.2/
linuxelf-1.2.13.diff.gz

I'm suprised that 1.3.17 didn't compile.  (But did you "make mrproper"
before trying to do "make conf", "make dep" and "make zImage" again?)

As for -Qy, did you try looking in the gcc and/or ln man pages to see
what it means?  (I don't know myself, but perhaps it's now a redundant
or obselete switch).

Oh, beware gcc 2.7.2.  If I recall, you need a patch for the kernel or
gcc itself (or is it one of the more recent libc's?), but I can't
recall the exact details.

Cheers
Tony
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