Raise minimum Binutils version? Was: [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup: use actual power8 assembly mnemonics

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Jul 2 08:23:00 GMT 2019


* Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho:

> I have no problem with that, but looking at the logs, GNU Binutils >= 2.25
> started to be required in June 2017, immediately before glibc release 2.26.
> That is commit 073e8fa7739e.
>
> Should glibc start to require a newer Binutils?

I don't have a problem with increasing the binutils version personally,
but feedback received for a make version increase was that we should
ideally do it at the beginning of a cycle.

Thanks,
Florian



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