[Pkg-uml-devel] Re: Bug#176485: uml does not start up with slirp backend

[Mattia Dongili]

On Tue, July 4, 2006 2:36 am, Junichi Uekawa said:
> Hi,
>
>> > this bug is 3.5 years old and I can't reproduce it here with current
>> > user-mode-linux package (iow, the slirp backend works here).
>> >
>> > Can some of you still reproduce it? If not (or if no answer comes)
>> I'll
>> > close this bug in a couple of weeks.
>>
>> I thought the bug was closed by the message date 04 Apr 2003 from the
>> then maintainer Matt Zimmerman. So, in particular, I have not
>> followed through on this bug. In fact, I have not used UML for quite
>> a while. So I have no objections to closing this bug.
>
> I think the discussion was like, building UML with gcc 3.X broke one
> part and 3.Y broke another part, so each release of UML had different
> parts functional, different parts non-functional.

yes, there was also gcc 2.95 in the game, (3.2 and 3.3 were the others)

> That was the old days; not quite sure if things have progressed too
> much.

well, the official compiler for the linux kernel is now gcc >= 3.2 so at
least _one_ step ahead should have happened.

-- 
mattia
:wq!