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 f4A2Frd17880 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 9 May 2001 19:15:53 -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 f4A2FkF17877 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 19:15:48 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4A2BDv02481; Wed, 9 May 2001 23:11:13 -0300 Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:11:13 -0300 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Andreas Jaeger , "Steven J. Hill" , Florian Lohoff , Tom Appermont , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ? Message-ID: <20010509231112.B2456@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010509161654.A2466@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:43:16PM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:43:16PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Seems like only certain version are affected; the more or less randomly > > choosen one I use for the RH 7 port seems to work quite well so far. What > > bug is that? > > Do you state you are able to build glibc 2.2 for MIPS/Linux using > binutils 2.9 or 2.8 or earlier??? Even 2.10 (2.10.1) doesn't work as > released, AFAIK, mostly due to unfinished versioning support for MIPS. > There are other, less significant problems as well, IIRC. Relevant > patches got applied in the 2.10.90 development cycle, AFAIK. Sorry, I wasn't thinking that somebody might consider using such pre-historic versions but unfortunately you're right. Ralf