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Re: Where to document supported versions of binutils?


> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:13:28 -0600
> From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
> 
> We've learned that, on native i686-pc-linux-gnu, gdb has bugs
> with binutils prior to binutils 2.13.  I saw this happen in my
> test bed, and David Carlton also saw it happening on his system.
> 
> Where do we record this knowledge so that gdb users can see it?
> 
> There doesn't appear to be a obvious section in NEWS or README
> for information like this.

I think README is the place to tell this.

We could also have the configure script run "ld --version" and print
something if it doesn't like the result.


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