backward/forward compatibility of binutils

[Mikhail Teterin]

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