From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:46:47 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Binutils version used on MIPS In-Reply-To: <87simjbx8x.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <20140701201445.3caa5150@free-electrons.com> <53B3B9F4.9010800@imgtec.com> <87simjbx8x.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20140702174647.4021cc92@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Peter Korsgaard, On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:23:26 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > FYI, the current (arch independent) default binutils version is 2.22, > not 2.24. > > We moved from 2.21 to 2.22 back in october: > > commit 9777dbedb012f68e54e14f9567d9dc0187d53b17 > Author: Peter Korsgaard > Date: Sun Oct 6 23:45:10 2013 +0200 > > binutils: default to 2.22 > > 2.21.1 is getting quite old, the linker issues with 2.22 seems to be > (mostly?) sorted out by now and armhf needs 2.22+, so let's bump the > default version. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard > > > Time has perhaps come to move to 2.23 or 2.24, I don't really know. Right, but Vicente patch simply removes the usage of a special version for MIPS, so MIPS now just uses whatever is the default version used for all architectures in Buildroot. Which I think is the right thing to do, unless there are special reasons to use a different version than the default one (such as AVR32 need of an old version, or Microblaze/PowerPC64LE need of a new version). Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com