[Kernel-handbook-general] backporting 3.13 from experimental to wheezy
Faheem Mitha
faheem at faheem.info
Wed Feb 19 17:21:48 UTC 2014
Hi,
See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/115921/4671
I'm trying to backport 3.13 to wheezy, using instructions in the kernel
handbook, namely
http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.5.
The main stumbling block seems to be (so far) that gcc 4.8 is
required, indeed hardwired into the build. This seems to have been done by
Debian, as I don't see a reason why Linux itself would require it. This
has the effect in this instance of making this packaging somewhat
backport-unfriendly.
Incidentally, the handbook refers to flavors, but does not say what the
possible flavors are. Also, it seems for amd64, one needs to set arch to
i386 and flavor to amd64, which is confusing.
Can you advise on how one can configure the build to use 4.7 on wheezy, if
possible? Thanks.
Regards, Faheem
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