In article <3103@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs) writes:
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> I have now seen enough posts to know it wasn't my install at fault (I hope).
> It seems the new 0.95 kernel will not compile fork.c or console.c with the
> -O option (compiler died on signal xx), I've seen this beforee on SUNs 
> using gcc so I take its a generic compiler bug? 

Maybe I'm just lucky, but the 0.95 kernel compiled without any major pro-
blems on my system under Linux 0.95 with gcc 1.40. I just had to uncomment
the GCC_OPT = -fcombine-regs lines in kernel/Makefile, lib/Makefile and
kernel/chr_dev/Makefile

Because I only have 4 MB RAM, I had to add about 1 MB of swap space to
compile kernel/chr_dev/console.c. (dd if=/dev/hda of=/swap bs=128k count=8;
mkswap /swap 1000; swapon /swap  - yes, the 1000 is a bit paranoid ;-)

- Werner
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