From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40B0ADDE.4000606@g-house.de> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:57:50 +0200 From: Christian Kujau MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: minimum required binutils for ppc32? References: <20040523095826.GA10105@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20040523095826.GA10105@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Christoph Hellwig schrieb: | What's the minimum required binutils version for ppc32 these days? | | The debian kernel package ups it from 2.12.1 to 2.12.90.0.7, i.e. from | the first 2.12 maintaince release to one of hjl's later releases and | I wonder why it does that. Either it's bogus and should be be dropped | or we should up it in mainline. well, the version of binutils in debian/woody is still pool/main/b/binutils/binutils_2.12.90.0.1-4_powerpc.deb. and kernel-source packages usually only depend on "binutils" from the same release (e.g. "stable"), no version number is given in "Depends:" the unstable changelog reveals: binutils (2.12.90.0.7-1) unstable; urgency=low ~ * New upstream version (synced with CVS 2002-04-23). ~ * Upstream: ELF EH frame bug fix ~ * Upstream: MIPS ELF visibility bug fix ~ * Upstream: Bug fixes for ELF/sparc ~ * Upstream: Bug fixes for ELF/cris ~ * Upstream: Fix linking a.out relocatable files ~ with ELF ~ * Upstream: Fix a PPC altivec assembler bug ~ * Numerous upstream changes since I have ~ deliberately not updated in awhile so that ~ I could stabilise the package for woody ~ release ~ * Fixed a glaring typo in the Debian additions ~ to the version string. ~ * Upstream incorporated --oformat ~ documentation patch; removed. ~ * Added a patch from upstream involving ~ relative relocs on Alpha ~ * Removed configure.info-[1-3] from -doc ~ (closes: Bug#146205) - -------------- so, there is some "PPC altivec assembler bug", but no bug#, don't what this is about. speaking of binutils, i'm currently unable to compile binutils-2.14.92 for ppc32 (hence the posting of "Error: Unrecognized opcode: `dssall'" in linuxppc-dev)... Christian. - -- BOFH excuse #426: internet is needed to catch the etherbunny ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/