| To: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Binary compatibility break understood ? |
| From: | "Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com> |
| Date: | Wed, 09 May 2001 14:17:34 -0500 |
| Cc: | Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>, Tom Appermont <tea@sonycom.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| References: | <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010509144913.2489C-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl> <ho7kzqd5kb.fsf@gee.suse.de> <20010509150934.B2073@bacchus.dhis.org> |
| Reply-to: | sjhill@cotw.com |
| Sender: | owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
Ralf Baechle wrote: > > It's only modutils which for correct functionality depends on the trad- > format, so I don't see any real reason for raising version requirements > for libc. > I can see your point...but...if we are trying fix the MIPS/Linux target from this point forward we should at least make people aware of what is going on. I propose spitting out a warning message when 'configure' is ran that if an older version of binutils/ld is found, then we warn the user that they may be unable to correctly use Linux kernel features or something like that. Comments? -Steve -- Steven J. Hill - Embedded SW Engineer Public Key: 'http://www.cotw.com/pubkey.txt' FPR1: E124 6E1C AF8E 7802 A815 FPR2: 7D72 829C 3386 4C4A E17D |
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