Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:11:31 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x? |
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On 03/02/2011 12:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:14 -0800 > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> binutils 2.16 (and presumably its prereleases, binutils 2.15.9x) appears >> to have more bugs than any other version of binutils released in modern >> history, *before or after*. >> >> We chronically run into problems because that particular binutils >> version breaks code that works fine elsewhere. >> >> I would like to know who would suffer from formally discontinuing >> support for that version. I understand some version of SLES shipped it, >> but I don't know for sure. >> > > I gave up and became a customer of > http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/index_old.shtml
Vegard,
The source directory in the above doesn't seem to match the binary directories, and is stuck at binutils 2.16.1. At the very best this is iffy from a GPL perspective, and very confusing to users.
This is obviously a highly useful project, can we straighten out the source situation?
-hpa
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