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Re: binutils requirement
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:20:20AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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> > Aha. Are the patterns in AC_CHECK_PROG_VER anchored to the beginning
> > of the \(\) region? My guess is no; I was using binutils 2.12.1, which
> > matches "2.1[3-9]*" (the second 2).
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> The shell script uses 'case' wo match the strings and it requires a
> complete match.
Found the problem. The test for critic_missing is above the test of
binutils version, so the "2.12.1, bad" did not stop the build.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer