[Bug 234749] Review Request: arm-gp2x-linux-binutils - Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at arm-linux

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Summary: Review Request: arm-gp2x-linux-binutils - Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at arm-linux


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234749





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2007-05-25 04:02 EST -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > Hans, could you elaborate this change:
> > 
> > * Thu May 24 2007 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> 2.17-1
> > - Revert to GNU 2.17 release as using GNU releases are better for non linux
> >   targets
> > 
> > You revert to using the FSF sources, nevertheless you call this target
"*-linux"?
> > 
> 
> Yes, my bad, thats a copy and paste error from the avr-binutils spec. After much
> experimenting and researching what others did, I ended up using FSF
> binutils-2.16.1 as that is what all other available preconfigured toolchains for
> this target use. However 2.16 has a bug which causes ar and ranlib to fail when
> compiled with -DFORTIFY_SOURCE=2, which is fixed in binutils 2.17 .
I know :) 

I had a patch for my rtems binutils packages when binutils-2.16 was current.
Jakub had a different one.

> Since the
> other available toolchains use FSF binutils and since 2.16 was giving me some
> problems, I decided to go to FSF 2.17 
OK with me. There is nothing wrong with using FSF source on linux targets, I
just wanted to know, because diverging from "nominal upstream" can cause nasty
incompatiblities. 

(Note: binutils-2.16 and binutils-2.17 aren't necessarily compatible).

> * http://open2x.org

> I'm modeling my current Fedora attempts after their work, I'm using:
> gcc-4.1.2
> binutils-2.17
> glibc-2.3.6 + linuxthreads
OK, that's what I wanted to know. It means naming the target *-linux is legitimated.




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