Require binutils 2.20 or later to build glibc
Roland McGrath
roland@hack.frob.com
Fri Feb 24 23:03:00 GMT 2012
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
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