Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:10:28 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning] |
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* Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Andreas, > > Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> writes: > >> So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux > >> kernel versions with new binutils do? > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrote: > > The same that testers have to do in order to build old Linux kernel > > versions with current versions of make. > > Are you saying it's OK to screw over binutils users because GNU Make > did that too?
The claim is not even true.
While really old Linux versions wont build with fresh versions of Make, something like v2.6.30, which is a 2 years old kernel, will build just fine, using latest Make.
So lets stop coming up with all the wrong reasons to not fix this problem ...
Thanks,
Ingo
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