From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markos Chandras Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 08:51:16 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Binutils version used on MIPS In-Reply-To: <20140701201445.3caa5150@free-electrons.com> References: <20140701201445.3caa5150@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <53B3B9F4.9010800@imgtec.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/01/2014 07:14 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Vicente, Markos, > > For the MIPS architecture, the current default binutils version in the > Buildroot internal toolchain backend is 2.21: > > prompt "Binutils Version" > depends on !BR2_arc > default BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_21 if (BR2_mips || BR2_mipsel || BR2_sh) > default BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_24 if BR2_microblaze || BR2_powerpc64le > default BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_22 > > Do you know if there's a good reason to keep using 2.21, as opposed to > a more recent version such as 2.23 or 2.24 ? It would be good to have a > little bit of testing done with binutils 2.23 or 2.24 and if it's > successful, bump the default version used on MIPS. > > Thanks! > > Thomas > Hi Thomas, No good reason and thanks for noticing. We will send a patch to use the latest one by default. -- markos