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Re: pre-build advice
- To: karipid at mae dot cornell dot edu (Daniel Karipides)
- Subject: Re: pre-build advice
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 12:51:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
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>
> I'm looking for a little advice before I build the latest snapshot
> of egcs. I'm worried that a little of the information in the FAQ
> and other places may be a little out of date, so I thought I would
> ask here.
>
> I will be building egcs on three system types:
>
> - Pentium II, 300Mz, running Linux RedHat 5.0 (not sure what the
> config.guess will be here...)
> - mips-sgi-irix5.3
> - mips-sgi-irix6.2
>
> My questions:
>
> (1) For linux, I plan to use glibc 2.0.6 ... is this what people
> would recommend?
glibc 2.0.7 is much better. You can get it from redhat.com.
>
> (2) Also for linux, what version of binutils should I use? I've
> seen people recommend 2.8.1.0.23 and 2.9. Does the 2.9 version
> work with glibc2? Or should I use 2.8.1.0.23 that H.J. Lu
> mentioned in a previous message?
binutils 2.9.1 is fine. I have made x86 gas changes to 2.9.1. It should
generate more efficient opcodes for x86 among other improvements.
H.J.