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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 11:09:23 +0200
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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