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How would someone compile a 2.2.x kernel on a relatively modern system?

Submitted by dav7
on June 16, 2009 - 12:44am

The subject's the question, really.

I have GCC 2.95.3 but I probably need to go back in time and ask someone to make me a statically compiled version of GCC like 1.90 or something, right? :P

Or do I need to completely cross the insanity barrier and locate and compile myself a copy of EGCS?

Thanks in advance!

-dav7

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start a virtual machine?

mangoo (not verified)
on
June 22, 2009 - 4:34am

The easiest would be to start a virtual machine (i.e. KVM) with an old distribution, I guess.

BTW, why do you need such an old kernel?

2.95.3 should be able to

Anonymous (not verified)
on
June 23, 2009 - 8:06pm

2.95.3 should be able to compile 2.2. IIRC a lot of 2.2 era distros came with it.

toolchain

strcmp
on
June 24, 2009 - 5:32pm

you need suitable versions of binutils etc. as well.

find an old red hat

Anonymous (not verified)
on
June 27, 2009 - 7:18am

find an old red hat distribution, i'm sure there is an archive of old releases with red hat 4 or 5 (not the enterprise 5) that has that version

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