A little horror story on toolchain requirements

[Denis Vlasenko]

On 9 October 2002 15:00, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Googling again... OUCH! I need newer binutils to be able
> > to compile newer binutils!!!   8-%
> >
> > I hope compiling newer binutils with _old_ (3.0.3) gcc will work
> > ;-)
>
> Binutils builds with just about anything.  That looks like you
> installed the GCC 3.2 you built as your system compiler; you should
> probably have read the installation notes first to find the binutils
> requirement...

"Binutils builds with just about anything, you should read the
installation notes first to find the binutils requirement"
sounds a bit contradictory to me :-)

Don't worry, I can switch back to gcc 3.0.3 real easy.
Will test it today at home.
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vda