Re: [RFC][PATCH] [ia64] Raise minimum binutils version and remove

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:52 -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
> > index 4fb88f1..23fc499 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/Changes
> > +++ b/Documentation/Changes
> > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ isdn4k-utils.
> >
> >  o  Gnu C                  3.2                     # gcc --version
> >  o  Gnu make               3.80                    # make --version
> > -o  binutils               2.12                    # ld -v
> > +o  binutils               2.12 (2.16 for ia64)    # ld -v
> >  o  util-linux             2.10o                   # fdformat --version
> >  o  module-init-tools      0.9.10                  # depmod -V
> >  o  e2fsprogs              1.41.4                  # e2fsck -V
> 
> Won't this file become a complete mess if each architecture starts
> specifying its own version for each of the tools?
[...]

Maybe, though the only things likely to need per-architecture fixes or
features are gcc and binutils.

By the way, I did a little more research and found that the bug
unwcheck.py is checking for was in binutils 2.16, so the minimum would
actually have to be 2.17 (or a distro-fixed 2.16).

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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