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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 2:10 am    Post subject: Does binutils-2.16 break anything? Reply with quote

I heard before 2.16 went into ~ that it broke a lot of stuff, so I've been sticking to the latest 2.15 one. But I'm doing an emerge -e system/world today with gcc-3.4.4, so I'd like to know if it's safe to switch over to it.
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 4:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its marked as testing/unstable, so I'd say don't use it unless your comfortable with fixing stuff that breaks from testing/unstable packages.

http://packagestest.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?binutils-2.16-r1
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

2.16.90.0.1 and 2.16.90.0.2 where broken. The stable 2.16 relase seems to work fine though, I use it myself.
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nxsty wrote:
2.16.90.0.1 and 2.16.90.0.2 where broken.

2.16.90.0.3 is broken on x86 too, it cannot build a kernel, 2.16-r1 seems to work okay so far.
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

2.16.90.0.3 builds my kernel with gcc-4.0.1_beta20050507 on x86
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thersites wrote:
2.16.90.0.3 builds my kernel with gcc-4.0.1_beta20050507 on x86

Then it may depend on other parts of the toolchain, kernel configuration, use flags, etc. Anyhow, when I downgrade to some other binutils version than 2.16.90.0.3 my kernels builds otherwise "as" errors out on some assembler inline code.
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

asimon wrote:
nxsty wrote:
2.16.90.0.1 and 2.16.90.0.2 where broken.

2.16.90.0.3 is broken on x86 too, it cannot build a kernel, 2.16-r1 seems to work okay so far.


2.6.11 and previous kernels needs a patch to compöile with binutils 2.16. Perhaps that's the problem.

Patch for 2.6:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch

Patch for 2.4:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch
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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

@asimon

As nxsty pointed out, it is not that new binutils are broken in regard to the kernel, they just disallow a certain assembler code, which should not have been allowed anyway.


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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2005 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@nxsty and PrakashP

Yes you're right, I used an unpatched kernel, the binutils are not to blame. Looks like I didn't do my homework. :roll:
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got the following error with:

$ emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose sys-devel/binutils
Quote:
* 40_all_118_arm_pass_all.patch ...

* Failed Patch: 40_all_118_arm_pass_all.patch !
* ( /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16-r1/work/patch/40_all_118_arm_pass_all.patch
)
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16-r1/temp/40_all_118_arm_pass_all.patch-8999.out


!!! ERROR: sys-devel/binutils-2.16-r1 failed.


$less /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16-r1/temp/40_all_118_arm_pass_all.patch-8999.out
Quote:
***** 40_all_118_arm_pass_all.patch *****

=========================================

PATCH COMMAND: patch -p0 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/binutil
s-2.16-r1/work/patch/40_all_118_arm_pass_all.patch

=========================================
can't find file to patch at input line 10
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
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