Re: Binary compatibility break understood ?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:17:34PM -0500, Steven J. Hill 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?

These binutils break the kernel compilations, so we should check them as
part of kernel module compiles.

  Ralf