[PLUG] Kernel Compiler

[Galen Seitz]

Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 16:35, Bill Spears wrote:
> > How do you tell:
> >   What version of gcc was used to compile a kernel?
> >                                                         a module eg
> > foo.o
> 
> A running kernel?  The very first line of kernel messages indicates. 
> dmesg|head or look in /var/log/dmesg.
> 
> Wil
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Or cat /proc/version.  At least it works here.  A gcc version
string is stuffed into the kernel when it is built.

galen