Comments on: Patching GCC 4.1.2 to build under GCC 8 https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/08/17/patching-gcc-4-1-2-to-build-under-gcc-8/ Fun with Virtualization Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:47:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Alexander Voropai https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/08/17/patching-gcc-4-1-2-to-build-under-gcc-8/comment-page-1/#comment-258320 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:45:35 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10430#comment-258320 To build GCC 3 for ‘ns32k’ architecture I did a multi-step “downgrade”: build GCC 6 (or 7?) for x86 under modern GCC, build a GCC 3 for i386 with it and finally build cross GCC 3 for ‘ns32k’ target and ‘i386’ host. Fortunately modern linux kernel still runs i386 binaries well (requires 32-bit libraries).

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/08/17/patching-gcc-4-1-2-to-build-under-gcc-8/comment-page-1/#comment-258067 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 04:51:02 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10430#comment-258067 In reply to Chris M..

I can’t say I’m surprised. Also a.out support seems to be totally hidden in the menu config I had to manually enable it, but even the 32bit kernel won’t run anything from my ancient tool chain. 1.0.9 runs them just fine.

So much for that stable backward support.

]]> By: Chris M. https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/08/17/patching-gcc-4-1-2-to-build-under-gcc-8/comment-page-1/#comment-257928 Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:13:07 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=10430#comment-257928 The 5.1.x kernel broke a few things apparently. Last one I knew about was that it broke the AppleTalk networking module (since fixed).

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2020/08/hacking-up-a-fix-for-the-broken-appletalk-kernel-module-in-linux-5-1-and-newer/

Just because it compiles without any errors doesn’t mean it’ll work folks 😛

Debian is pretty conservative still being on 4.x and it seems to have paid off. Ubuntu has since went to 5.x on a LTS.

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