Re: Development tools version

[Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>]

FYI,

strip in binutils-2.11.2 has problems...
Not very important maybe, but annoying.

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-binutils/2001-q3/msg00108.html

/ magnus


Neil Horman wrote:
>
> Yes, binutils 2.11.2.  Sorry about my fat fingers... :)
>         Say....Speaking of those memory faults.  I never got around to researching
> them.  Can you or anyone else provide general notes on exactly what those
> patches fix?  I'd certainly appreciate it, as I always wanted to track those
> down, but never quite found the time.  Thanks!
>
> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >I think that the Hard Hat tools will probably be the easiest for you to get up
> > >and running with.  They have probably been the most throughly debugged for the
> > >8xx.   Although if your looking to put together your own tools for the 860
> > >series, we here have built the following, with a reasonably good deal of
> > >success.  See the notes for details:
> > >
> > >Binutils:
> > >       2.1.2 - no problems at all.  Download and build them for powerpc-linux and away
> > >you go
> > >
> > >GCC:
> > >       2.95.3 - again no real problems.
> > >
> > >GLIBC:
> > >       2.2.4 - relatively easy.  Some issues with memory faults on occasion, which I
> > >have not yet traked down.
> > >
> > >GDB:
> > >       5.1.1 - no problems
> > >
> > >General notes:
> > >       I've personally been following the embedded cross-gcc mini howto available on
> > >penguinppc.com and I've been more or less happy with the results.  hope that
> > >helps!
> > >
> > Thanks Neil.
> >
> > I've been able to succesfully use the Hard Hat binaries (actually that's
> > so simple that I wouldn't have dared asking questions in this mailing
> > list if I hadn't :-), but I'd like to recompile from the sources, in
> > order not to depend on a binary release, and also to be able to modify
> > the tools if needed.
> >
> > I tried to compile the tools from the sources without patching them a
> > few months ago, and experienced memory faults and a lot of other
> > problems with dynamically linked executables (is that a known issue ?).
> >
> > Recompiling from the SRPMS shouldn't be a hard job, so that's what I'll
> > try. All the patches are supposed to be included in there...
> >
> > Just to make sure, did you mean binutils 2.11.2 ?
> >
> > Laurent Pinchart
>

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