binutils 2.17

[Terry Chan]

Yes, there is a good reason why binutils is NOT 2.17.

svn log moonbase/devel/binutils/DETAILS 

is your friend.
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r20669 | stumbles | 2006-07-11 11:23:21 -0500 (Tue, 11 Jul 2006) | 8 lines


This downgrade is needed as it causes a glibc (nptl or not) compile to fail.
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And that's why we can't use many of the version bumps of the core tools from
you, because your lunar box is SO non-standard.

Terry Chan
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:35:52AM +0200, Florin Braescu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Is there any reason why binutils was not bumped to 2.17 version in the 
> moonbase? I use the 2.17 version for a long time without a problem. It's true 
> that i used gcc 4.1.1 and now i use gcc 4.2.1.
> 
>   Florin