Re: The Linux binutils 2.11.90.0.15 is released.

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:06:54PM -0700, Ken Whaley wrote:
> I'm having some problems on an alpha ev6 with binutils 2.11.90.0.15.
> I tried to bootstrap /usr/local installations of 
> binutils 2.11.90.0.15, followed by gcc 2.95.3 (+atexit patches) then
> glibc 2.2.3 (+nis patches) on an alpha ev6 system (kernel 2.2.14),
> 
> I'm starting with binutils 2.10.90, gcc 2.95.2, and glibc 2.1.3-21
> 
> First I did binutils 2.11.90.0.15: it built, make check passed, and
> installed fine (into /usr/local)
> 
> Then I made gcc 2.95.3 using -with-as=/usr/local/bin/as and 
> -with-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld to force use of the new binutils.  It built
> and installed fine (I don't have the gcc testsuite so I didn't run it).
> 
> Then I made glibc 2.2.3 with the above gcc 2.95.3.  It built, but
> make check has many errors.  Some tests fail, some seg fault.

I don't use gcc 2.95.3 for glibc 2.2. I use gcc 2.96 from RedHat 7.1.

> 
> I am going to try repeating this process with binutils 2.11, and if 
> glibc 2.2.3 make check still fails, I will try again with binutils
> 2.10.90, even though this means I won't get some alpha bug fixes that
> are in 2.11.

Unfortunately, my alpha box won't even boot. I cannot verify it myself.

> 
> I suspect binutils because I noticed that when using the older 
> binutils 2.10.90, the config.guess part of autoconfigure correctly
> detected an alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu (this is true for gcc as well
> as binutils configure).  With binutils 2.11.90.0.15 installed,
> config.guess incorrectly detects the system as alpha-unknown-linux-gnu.

I don't know if it should make a difference. You need to find out
why config.guess doesn't report alphaev6. There are several changes
in config.guess.


H.J.