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Re: What C compiler is required for coreutils 6.4 building?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: What C compiler is required for coreutils 6.4 building?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:16:40 -0700
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According to Linda Walsh on 1/7/2007 2:47 PM:
> Is a particular C compiler required to build coreutils 6.4?
> 
> I was trying to build the 6.4 utils as extracted from the suse 10.2
> sources.  It uses an argument "-fpie" which is unknown to my version
> of gcc (3.3.5).

Take that up with the suse maintainers, as that is not part of the
upstream distribution.

> Is there some cutoff point for c compilers being able to generate 6.4, or
> should the 3.3.x series still work?

The cygwin distribution still uses 3.4.4 to compile coreutils 6.x (I'd
recommend 6.7 instead of 6.4), and older gcc are probably still supported.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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