From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:28:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411182856.GA327@x4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120411180520.GE12044@thunk.org>
On 2012.04.11 at 14:05 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:51:07AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> >
> > Yes. I use it regularly. The last problems were fixed two years ago.
> > Please try a more recent version.
>
> Thanks, I'll give that a try. Next stupid question; for a variety of
> reasons, the Corporate I/T folks require that I stay stuck on Ubuntu
> 10.04. Are there any incompatibility problems with using the most
> recently released binutils-gold and gcc 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1? Basically,
> can I just compile a new version of binutils, or do I need to upgrade
> my entire compiler toolchain?
Just compiling and installing a new binutils version should work fine.
(But you should nonetheless consider to also upgrade gcc, because
gcc-4.4 is ancient and not even officially maintained anymore...)
--
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 2:23 Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker Theodore Ts'o
2012-04-11 3:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-11 4:51 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-04-11 18:05 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-11 18:28 ` Markus Trippelsdorf [this message]
2012-04-11 19:13 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-11 19:18 ` H.J. Lu
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