Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Mar 2011 21:25:51 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x? |
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:11:31PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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?
The binaries has never worked for me (on my Intel Atom 32 bit box). Today I use crosstool-ng - which works great. [Need to polish my patch to add saprc support...]
URL: http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool
Sam
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