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 f4AMToq17301 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:29:50 -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 f4AMTmF17295 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:29:48 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4AJMLc04324; Thu, 10 May 2001 16:22:21 -0300 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:22:21 -0300 From: Ralf Baechle To: Ryan Murray Cc: "Steven J. Hill" , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Binary compatibility break understood ? Message-ID: <20010510162221.A1736@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010505144708.A12575@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010507163210.B2381@bacchus.dhis.org> <20010508202518.A13476@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010508214313.A12528@bacchus.dhis.org> <20010509095955.A8392@sonycom.com> <20010509104635.D12267@paradigm.rfc822.org> <3AF934AE.38AB0089@cotw.com> <20010510110847.A2799@cyberhqz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010510110847.A2799@cyberhqz.com>; from rmurray@debian.org on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:08:47AM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:08:47AM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote: > So, in summary: > * all existing binaries do not need to be recompiled, and should > continue to work. (shlibs included?) > * all new binaries should use the new formats. > > To get the new targets working correctly: > * new binutils > * new gcc built with new binutils (does the 2.95.4 branch have the > changes, or only 3.0?) > * new libc built with new gcc > * rebuild gcc with the new libc > > Am I missing anything? The latter three steps are not necessary. Ralf