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Subject: Re: stable binutils, gcc, glibc ...
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:03:24AM -0400, Jay Carlson wrote:

> > {AJ} Either use as compiler egcs 1.1.2 or the current development
> > version of
> > gcc 2.96 from CVS.  gcc 2.95.x does not work correctly on mips-linux.
> 
> Why not 1.0.3a+patches?  And could you mention a day that a 2.97 checkout
> was known to work?

1.0.3a doesn't work for compiling glibc 2.1.94 on any architecture due to
a bug in the handling of weak undefined symbols - they're emitted as
strong symbols.

  Ralf