Re: Basics -- what tools for Walnut?

[Dave Strout <dstrout@linuxfoundary.com>]

It's all good -- I didn't realize there was a newer binutils.  2.12
seems to do the trick

thanks,
dave.

Dan Malek wrote:

>
> Frank Rowand wrote:
>
>> I suspect that is a fairly old tool chain that you are using.
>
>
> In the past, the practice was to inform people when changes were made
> that required a minimum revision of tools to operate properly.
> Simply telling people "your toolchain is too old" isn't helpful.....
> What version of tools is required to build this properly?  Why
> doesn't the check in comment indicate this information when the
> change was made?
>
>> Try modifying arch/ppc/Makefile to use
>>
>>   -mcpu=403
>
>
> Or, just remove it since it doesn't perform any useful function.  On
> the newer tools, it's required to allow the assembler to not bitch about
> 4xx unique instructions, another non-useful function, IMHO.
>
> Thanks.
>
>     -- Dan
>
>
>


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