Re: Linux 2.0.37pre10

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:25:43 +0200


Hi1

> > > Ok this one should be it. Couple of compile fixes, some minor device
> > > updates and the fsync() fix.
> > >
> > > You need binutils 2.8 or 2.9 to build this kernel tree. 2.7 is not good
> > > enough
> >
> > Are you sure this is good idea? I thought 2.0 kernel was designed to
> > compile with pretty old tools... Upgrading binutils can be rather
> > nontrivial (ask jj about my sun4 :-).
> >
> > Pavel
>
> Ungzipping and untaring the gzipped the prebuilt binary tarball and
> following any other intructions in the README has always worked for me.

I already asked Antony privately, but:

Is there chance to get precompiled binutils for i386 generating executables
for sun4? I see upgrading is easy for normal compiles, but
crosscompiling makes things complicated.

Pavel

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