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 f49JR2P06791 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 9 May 2001 12:27:02 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f49JR0F06788 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 12:27:00 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f49JOKW02599; Wed, 9 May 2001 16:24:20 -0300 Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:24:20 -0300 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Steven J. Hill" Cc: Andreas Jaeger , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Florian Lohoff , Tom Appermont , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ? Message-ID: <20010509162420.B2466@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010509150934.B2073@bacchus.dhis.org> <3AF997CE.E2885B9@cotw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AF997CE.E2885B9@cotw.com>; from sjhill@cotw.com on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:17:34PM -0500 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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