Getting started

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Sep 15 10:29:01 CEST 2003


On 15 Sep 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> > romcc is sensitive to the version of linux you are running at present. 
> 
> Ron how so?  If romcc compiles it should work.  I don't have any
> excuse for romcc to behave different depending on what compiler
> compiles it.

it makes no sense to me either, as romcc is clean and well-written. It is 
just what I have seen: it won't work on my RH 7.3 box, with:
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)

BTW, config.py as of today doesn't work with this error:
  File "/home/rminnich/src/freebios2/util/newconfig/config.py", line 1393, 
in term
    return long(NUM, 10)
TypeError: long requires exactly 1 argument; 2 given

I think somebody broke something. Python it turns out rotates function 
definitions frequently, with the result that it is hard to write 
python-version-independent code. 

ron




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