linux kernel compliation : Is it possible to compile it by othercompiler?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>
>> 	In the early days of Linux we got the kernel as a tarball. You would 
>> make and then make install and you were set up. The compiler was the 
>> current gcc. In those days there were several named brands of Linux and 
>> you got the kernel from another source.
> 
> I don't know where you were then, but binary kernels have been around
> since the very early days.  Granted if you wanted to add modules for
> devices you had but weren't included in the kernel that was something
> else entirely.    I don't ever recall any 'name brand' linux distros
> that came without a binary kernel (gentoo doesn't really count) and that
> you had to 'get the kernel from another source'.
> 
>> 	It was sure confusing and difficult for previous DOS users. But it was 
>> exciting too.
>>
>> 	The early X-window from MIT was lots better than windows of the same 
>> period.
>>
>> 	Ubuntu was the first place I ran into a binary kernel package. Now I 
>> get a new kernel as a small upgrade.
> 
> 
> Ubuntu was the first place you got a binary kernel?

	Not sure, but it is the first place I get them as an upgrade from a 
repo. I used Red Hat before Ubuntu and didn't get a new kernel from a repo.

   What distro did you
>  use prior to that that didn't come with a binary one?  I've been
> tooling with Linux (and hell, MINIX) since the really early days and
> remember seeing early RH and Slackware versions with binary kernels.
> 
	I think it was Slackware early that had the tar ball kernels and very 
few, if any, had no additions to the kernel like we have today.


> As for compiling the kernel with something OTHER than GCC, yeah, I've
> done it.  Intel's C compiler will build it.  IIRC, virtually /any/
> commercial C++ compiler would build it.  It might not be the case now,
> but I'd not bet on it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
	Well I used GCC because that was what we had. There were other C 
compilers but they cos money!

karl


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