Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:28:56 +0200 | From | Markus Trippelsdorf <> | Subject | Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker |
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On 2012.04.11 at 14:05 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:51:07AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > > Yes. I use it regularly. The last problems were fixed two years ago. > > Please try a more recent version. > > Thanks, I'll give that a try. Next stupid question; for a variety of > reasons, the Corporate I/T folks require that I stay stuck on Ubuntu > 10.04. Are there any incompatibility problems with using the most > recently released binutils-gold and gcc 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1? Basically, > can I just compile a new version of binutils, or do I need to upgrade > my entire compiler toolchain?
Just compiling and installing a new binutils version should work fine.
(But you should nonetheless consider to also upgrade gcc, because gcc-4.4 is ancient and not even officially maintained anymore...)
-- Markus
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