Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/02/2011 12:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:14 -0800
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> binutils 2.16 (and presumably its prereleases, binutils 2.15.9x) appears
>> to have more bugs than any other version of binutils released in modern
>> history, *before or after*.
>>
>> We chronically run into problems because that particular binutils
>> version breaks code that works fine elsewhere.
>>
>> I would like to know who would suffer from formally discontinuing
>> support for that version.  I understand some version of SLES shipped it,
>> but I don't know for sure.
>>
> 
> I gave up and became a customer of
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/index_old.shtml

Vegard,

The source directory in the above doesn't seem to match the binary
directories, and is stuck at binutils 2.16.1.  At the very best this is
iffy from a GPL perspective, and very confusing to users.

This is obviously a highly useful project, can we straighten out the
source situation?

	-hpa
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