Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem

Andi Kleen
2008-05-02T09:09:51Z

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> Honestly, I nearly died when I built all those cross-compilers. Sooooooo
> many combinations of gcc/binutils/glibc refused to work for obscure
> reasons. Compilation on x86_64 just didn't work at all and I ended up
> having to build everything on a slow i386 box, etc, etc. The stream of
> email to Dan got increasingly strident ;)

This might be pointing out the obvious, but to just update the compiler
from 4.1.0 to 4.1.2 (or other) you don't need to recompile binutils and glibc.

-Andi