Re: stable binutils, gcc, glibc ...

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:55:50AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:13:23PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
> > c) What about those patches at the same ftp sites (v2.8.x)?
> > 
> > ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/binutils/
> 
> Still recommended because we can't yet be sure that binutils-cvs are
> kosher yet.  For example it's suspect that I can't build Emacs.  Might
> be something else but in case of doubt binutils are the suspect ...

If its only emacs - I am happy :)

> > d) Andreas said the current development version 2.96 worked - with the
> > later binutils and gcc.
> 
> Plus above mentioned constructor patch.
> 
> Seems to work reasonably well.

For everything non glibc 2.2

> > ftp://ftp.place.org/pub/nop/linuxce/
> > ftp://ftp.place.org/pub/nop/linuxce/rpms/glibc-2.0.7-20.src.rpm
> 
> 2.0.7 has resulted in so many bug reports that I consider to plain dump any
> related reports in the future.

Ack

Flo
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