Re: 2.0.38 and binutils.

Daniel Ryde (ryde@tripnet.se)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:37:06 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Peter Hanecak wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Daniel Ryde wrote:
>
> > I noticed that in your announcement for 2.0.37pre9 that binutils 1.8 is
I ment 2.8 here --^^^

> > needed to build it. It this neccecery for 2.0.38 too? It does'nt say so in
> > Documentation/Changes, and it seems to work with binutils 2.7.0. If not,
> > what will go wrong?
>
> according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes you need :
> ...
> Binutils 2.7.0.3
> ...

No this is wrong and a documentation bug. I just had an email discussion
with Alan Cox and according to him you really need binutils 2.8 or higher.

/Dr

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