Re: [PATCH] fix missing option in binutils version check

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:02:20PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:

>  On Tue, Jul 13, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:49:45PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > >  On Mon, Jul 12, Tom Rini wrote:
> > >
> > > > +cflags-$(CONFIG_6xx)		+= -Wa,-maltivec
> > >
> > > That breaks gas 2.14 with gcc 3.4 or gcc 3.5, it passes -mppc, -many to
> > > as and leads to this error:
> >
> > Er, are you sure you got your patches right?  Adding -Wa,-maltivec only,
> > shouldn't cause -many to ever show up (and we don't want -many to ever
> > show up, since it is broken on otherwise supported binutils combos).
>
> gcc passes it without asking.

OK.  Perhaps gcc should be refusing to build with older binutils
perhaps?  It sounds like gcc-3.4 + binutils-2.14 or older won't work
unless we ensure that any -mppc/altivec/etc type flags that gcc itself
would pass, excluding -many, are re-passed by the kernel itself.

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Tom Rini
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