On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 07:31:26AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
--On Monday, August 05, 2002 07:25:13 AM -0700 Richard Henderson
<rth@twiddle.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:45:20AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> As long as there is a configure option to build anyway. That's an
>> awful lot of released systems you're talking about not building on!
>
> So? If you're upgrading gcc, you can upgrade binutils too.
Agreed. On a system which supports the configury options discussed, they
should be used.
I agree with both of these statements, but as I undertstand it that's
not the whole issue. Jakub included a glibc version in his list of
necessary infrastructure to get ABI compliance, and upgrading glibc on
a running system is very different from upgrading the compiler and
linker. Requiring glibc 2.2.5 to build a native compiler is not OK.