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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:30:56 -0700
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: Andre.Messerschmidt@infineon.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: GCC and Modules
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:20:57PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:40:05AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
> > > As I understand the current stable release of binutils and gcc is not able
> > > to compile functional modules. 
> > 
> > What are you talking about? My mips toolchain is as stable/good as the
> > x86 version for RedHat 7.1.
> 
> He's refering to the last official release of binutils which indeed wasn't
> usable for modutils.

What official release of binutils? Are we talking about the FSF
official release? Since when did Linux use those? They won't even
work right on Linux/x86. You should either use the Linux binutils
or try your luck with CVS.


H.J.