Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:13:25 -0400 | From | Ted Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker |
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:28:56PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > 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...)
Well *someone* has to still make sure the kernel compiles correctly on the enterprise distro's that a huge number of Linux users use... (including RHEL 6, Debian Stable, SLES 11, Ubuntu LTS 10.04, etc.)
:-)
But yeah, I hope to get off of Ubuntu LTS real soon now, and onto something a bit more hip, such as Debian testing.
- Ted
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