Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23 | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:33:18 +0000 |
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From: Jason A. Donenfeld > Sent: 23 March 2020 21:12 ... > By the way, while we're in the process of updating dependencies, what > if we ratched the minimum binutils on x86 up to 2.25 (which is still > quite old)? In this case, we could get rid of *all* of the CONFIG_AS_* > ifdefs throughout.
Even my system has 2.23.2, although I've had to pull in a later version of old of the elf libraries at some point.
Unfortunately we have to support customers who insist on using very old distributions - and it is easiest to build things on systems with similar old userspace. The memcpy/memmove fiasco and changes to C++ 'character traits' make anything else almost impossible.
Unnecessary minimum versions do cause grief.
David
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