Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix missing option in binutils version check

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:29:50 +0200

On Tue, Jul 13, Tom Rini wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >  On Tue, Jul 13, Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > > OK.  Perhaps gcc should be refusing to build with older binutils
> > > perhaps?  It sounds like gcc-3.4 + binutils-2.14 or older won't work
> > > unless we ensure that any -mppc/altivec/etc type flags that gcc itself
> > > would pass, excluding -many, are re-passed by the kernel itself.
> >
> > Its just the 2.14 + gcc 3.4 combo that does not work.
> > binutils 2.12, 2.13  and 2.15 works ok with gcc 3.4.
>
> Does gcc not pass down -many with 2.12/2.13, or does -many actually work
> there?

 /home/olaf/toolchain/inst/binutils-2.14-gcc-3.4.1/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.1/../../../../powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/as -mppc -many -V -Qy -maltivec -o arch/ppc/kernel/.tmp_time.o time.s
 /home/olaf/toolchain/inst/binutils-2.12.1-gcc-3.4.1/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.1/../../../../powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/as -mppc -many -V -Qy -maltivec -o arch/ppc/kernel/.tmp_time.o time.s
 /home/olaf/toolchain/inst/binutils-2.15-gcc-3.4.1/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.1/../../../../powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/as -mppc -many -V -Qy -maltivec -o arch/ppc/kernel/.tmp_time.o time.s

looks like gas 2.14 has different -many behaviour.

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