[Kernel-handbook-general] backporting 3.13 from experimental to wheezy

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 22:51 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 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.

No, that's not correct.  Both arch and flavour should be amd64.

> Can you advise on how one can configure the build to use 4.7 on wheezy, if 
> possible? Thanks.

You should change the compiler setting in debian/config/defines.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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