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Re: Require binutils 2.20 or later to build glibc
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:02:47 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Require binutils 2.20 or later to build glibc
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202242216420.2811@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
In its own right, I think 2.20 seems like a reasonable baseline.
But it seems suspect that we're requiring a binutils years newer
than the GCC we require. Perhaps it would be OK to require 4.4.3
by now, which meshes better with 2.20. But I'm not at all sure.
I vaguely recall people posting before that requiring too new
a binutils was burdensome for some platform or other, but I don't
recall the details. I think we should at least get each arch maintainer
to weigh in explicitly before deciding.
Independently, I think it's a bit dubious that we're requiring IFUNC
support unconditionally. (I hadn't noticed we used it outside of
multiarch.) Perhaps my tendencies move too slowly, but it still feels a
might newfangled.
Thanks,
Roland