From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE2F81382C5 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 07:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 483D1E0953; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 07:32:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgate2.uni-hannover.de (mailgate2.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.114]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6195E0949 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 07:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from intranet.aei.uni-hannover.de (ahin1.aei.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.40]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailgate2.uni-hannover.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C55F83126 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:32:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from comet2.terra.ger ([87.146.82.194]) by intranet.aei.uni-hannover.de (IBM Domino Release 9.0.1FP8) with ESMTP id 2020070109320882-172314 ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:32:08 +0200 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:32:08 +0200 From: Gerrit Kuehn To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo Message-ID: <20200701093208.77c25848@comet2.terra.ger> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.4 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.1) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on intranet/aei-hannover(Release 9.0.1FP8|February 23, 2017) at 01/07/2020 09:32:08, Serialize by Router on intranet/aei-hannover(Release 9.0.1FP8|February 23, 2017) at 01/07/2020 09:32:09, Serialize complete at 01/07/2020 09:32:09 X-TNEFEvaluated: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: d3a57a94-0fe3-4fc9-8196-7cdd374ff44c X-Archives-Hash: 4f2b4a4e180e389dc395df24c2d5df1b On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:31:08 +0000 Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > What about the rest of the system, in particular GCC and the C > libraries? Do you manage to build the 3.x kernel with up to date > system or do you need to ''freeze'' some packages? 3.2 required an older gcc for me. I think 5.x and 6.x worked fine (if memory serves me well). As gcc comes slotted, it is not too hard to have them all installed in parallel. cu Gerrit