From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com>
Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>, Tom Appermont <tea@sonycom.com>,
linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:24:20 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010509162420.B2466@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF997CE.E2885B9@cotw.com>; from sjhill@cotw.com on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:17:34PM -0500
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:17:34PM -0500, Steven J. Hill 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?
These binutils break the kernel compilations, so we should check them as
part of kernel module compiles.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-09 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-05 12:47 Binary compatibility break understood ? Florian Lohoff
2001-05-07 19:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-08 18:25 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-05-09 0:43 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-09 7:59 ` Tom Appermont
2001-05-09 8:46 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-05-09 12:14 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-05-09 12:27 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-05-09 12:51 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-05-09 12:45 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-05-09 13:59 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-05-09 13:49 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-05-09 14:06 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-05-09 14:15 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-05-09 13:07 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-05-09 13:18 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-05-09 13:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-05-09 18:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-09 18:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-05-09 19:16 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-09 19:43 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-05-10 2:11 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-09 19:17 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-05-09 19:24 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-05-10 18:08 ` Ryan Murray
2001-05-10 19:22 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-11 7:56 ` Tom Appermont
2001-05-11 9:26 ` Keith M Wesolowski
2001-05-11 10:42 ` Tom Appermont
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