From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f49J47d05667 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 9 May 2001 12:04:07 -0700 Received: from cvsftp.cotw.com (cvsftp.cotw.com [208.242.241.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f49J43F05663; Wed, 9 May 2001 12:04:03 -0700 Received: from cotw.com (dhcp-050.inter.net [192.168.10.50]) by cvsftp.cotw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27355; Wed, 9 May 2001 14:04:02 -0500 Message-ID: <3AF997CE.E2885B9@cotw.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:17:34 -0500 From: "Steven J. Hill" Reply-To: sjhill@cotw.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19pre17-idepci i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: Andreas Jaeger , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Florian Lohoff , Tom Appermont , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ? References: <20010509150934.B2073@bacchus.dhis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ralf Baechle wrote: > > It's only modutils which for correct functionality depends on the trad- > format, so I don't see any real reason for raising version requirements > for libc. > I can see your point...but...if we are trying fix the MIPS/Linux target from this point forward we should at least make people aware of what is going on. I propose spitting out a warning message when 'configure' is ran that if an older version of binutils/ld is found, then we warn the user that they may be unable to correctly use Linux kernel features or something like that. Comments? -Steve -- Steven J. Hill - Embedded SW Engineer Public Key: 'http://www.cotw.com/pubkey.txt' FPR1: E124 6E1C AF8E 7802 A815 FPR2: 7D72 829C 3386 4C4A E17D