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Re: Require binutils 2.25 or later to build glibc
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:55:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: Require binutils 2.25 or later to build glibc
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On 06/20/2017 10:45 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> This patch implements a requirement of binutils >= 2.25 (up from 2.22)
> to build glibc. Tests for 2.24 or later on x86_64 and s390 are
> removed. It was already the case, as indicated by buildbot results,
> that 2.24 was too old for building tests for 32-bit x86 (produced
> internal linker errors linking elf/tst-gnu2-tls1mod.so). I don't know
> if any configure tests for binutils features are obsolete given the
> increased version requirement.
Can we make 2.25.1 the minimum version? Then we can drop the check in
sysdeps/arm/configure.ac, too.
Thanks,
Florian