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backward/forward compatibility of binutils
- From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde at aldan dot algebra dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:50:16 -0400
- Subject: backward/forward compatibility of binutils
Hello!
I apologize in advance for the potential explosiveness of this subject... :-)
I use FreeBSD, which uses a fair amount of binutils-using GNU utilities (gdb,
compiler toolchain, objdump).
Currently each of these tools builds its own version of binutils and links
with it -- *statically*. The binutils library(ies) (-lbfd) don't even get
installed into /usr .
The reasons for this are historical -- each tool (still!) comes with its own
version of binutils, which some time ago used to be incompatible with each
other :-(
Is this still a problem, or should we try using a single version again?
Thanks!
-mi