🚀 go-pugleaf

Austin Hsu (austin.hsu@worldnet.att.net) wrote:

: My machine is running kernel(1.2.8) without ELF support.  My gcc(2.6.3)
: doesn't have ELF ability either.  I would like to move to ELF in both
: kernel and gcc. So what should I do?

: Those HOWTO documents don't help too much because they always assume
: your system is ELF_kernel.

: My dilemma is that to build ELF_kernel, I need an ELF_gcc to do the job.
: However, to run an ELF_gcc the kernel must have ELF ability
: (is that true ???).

First of all, get a newer kernel (I suggest 1.3.83).  When you compile 
it, say yes to "Kernel support for a.out binaries" AND to "Kernel support 
for ELF binaries" but say NO to "Compile kernel as ELF".

You can't compile the kernel as ELF yet because you don't have the ELF 
gcc installed yet, however, you *can* install support for the binaries in 
the kernel, which you *do* need to do before you can upgrade gcc.

That's how you escape the loop.  :)

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