GNU hash-style compatibility problem on x86_64

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:07:29AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2007, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:56:38AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:47:47AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > > Well, it sounds like a bug in binutils 2.17. There are so many of them
> > > > and they have been fixed in the current binutils. I don't want to spend
> > > > time on it unless it is reproducible in the current binutils.
> > >
> > > But wasn't the point of --hash-style=both to be compatible with older
> > > tools?
> >
> > I don't recommend older tools on Linux. If it forces users to use
> > the current binutils on Linux, it is even better.
> 
> except that binutils-2.17 is "current binutils" ... not everyone recognizes 
> the snapshots as real releases (since they arent real GNU releases)

Well, if you build your glibc with newer binutils than that
(otherwise it wouldn't be built with --hash-style=both), then you already
weren't recognizing 2.17 as "current binutils".

	Jakub