From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760894Ab2DKS3A (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:29:00 -0400 Received: from ud10.udmedia.de ([194.117.254.50]:56076 "EHLO mail.ud10.udmedia.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753695Ab2DKS27 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:28:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:28:56 +0200 From: Markus Trippelsdorf To: "Ted Ts'o" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com Subject: Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker Message-ID: <20120411182856.GA327@x4> References: <20120411045107.GA324@x4> <20120411180520.GE12044@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120411180520.GE12044@thunk.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2012.04.11 at 14:05 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:51:07AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > > Yes. I use it regularly. The last problems were fixed two years ago. > > Please try a more recent version. > > Thanks, I'll give that a try. Next stupid question; for a variety of > reasons, the Corporate I/T folks require that I stay stuck on Ubuntu > 10.04. Are there any incompatibility problems with using the most > recently released binutils-gold and gcc 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1? Basically, > can I just compile a new version of binutils, or do I need to upgrade > my entire compiler toolchain? Just compiling and installing a new binutils version should work fine. (But you should nonetheless consider to also upgrade gcc, because gcc-4.4 is ancient and not even officially maintained anymore...) -- Markus