Require binutils 2.20 or later to build glibc

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Mon Feb 27 23:15:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:

> Yes, it's used to make early use of compiler and library performance
> and functionality improvements.  I just reviewed our scripting and
> verified that we don't actually build GLIBC in any stage with the
> system compiler, so we should be ok.

Thanks.  I've now committed the GCC >= 4.3 patch.  Marek, you may wish to 
do the removal of __GNUC_PREREQ conditionals you were interested in (only 
in files that are not installed, and probably not in files that are shared 
with gnulib either).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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