binutils 2.17

[Kok, Auke]

Jean Michel Bruenn wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:45:13 +0200
> Florin Braescu <florin at lunar-linux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>   If we have now gcc 4.1.2 as the main gcc compiler can we bump the
>> version of binutils to 2.17? On my system it works for a few months
>> already :).
>>
> 
> If you do so, just include patches i use at the hardened lunar. You
> can see the patches here:

please include (here, on this list) why we should do so. Are they important? 
required? fixes???

Auke