Re: Upgrade

[Ciaran Kendellen <nospam [at] detritus.madasafish.com>]

Its no problem really, I upgraded from RH5.2 to 6.1 last week and
everything went smoothly.

I was, however, running a 2.2.x kernel already so I had all those
upgrade necessary and I had compiled all the new (inverted commas
because by the time I upgraded my OS they had an even newer version in
rpm form!!) gnome stuff from scratch (including GTK+ etc.)

The only problem I had is that the compilers shipped with 6.1 won't
compile the kernel sources (2.2.12) you get with it. I guess that's what
happens when you get new compilers and quite a complex piece of code!!!
But all I did was download the source code for a set of old compilers,
egcs-1.1.2, which is the newest version of the compilers to compile
2.2.x kernels and let rip. The old compilers are in /usr/local/bin as
gcc.old etc and I just rename them when I need to compile my kernel (one
of the many advantages of having a seperate /usr/local partition!).

I believe the latest development kernels will compile now with the new
compilers, but apart from that there weren't any problems.

Hope this helps...
--
Ciaran Kendellen.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle 351BC

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