binutils 2.17

Jean Michel Bruenn jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de
Thu Mar 22 06:28:28 CET 2007


On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:27:12 -0500
Terry Chan <tpchan at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:45:13PM +0200, Florin Braescu 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 :).
> > 
> >   Florin
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> No, we should NOT upgrade binutils to 2.17. The problem with
> binutils (and you seem to need this reminder multiple times) is
> that binutils-2.17 will not compile glibc (with or without NPTL).
> This is not a gcc-4.x or gcc-3.4.x problem. It's a BINUTILS problem
> with glibc.
> 

thats wrong... i tested it. But i patched my modules, maybe it's
cause of the patches. binutils-2.17 is working fine with glibc
(compiled it three times, WITH and WITHOUT NPTL).

> Read the svn log for binutils in moonbase.
> 
> Terry Chan
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