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[Bug bootstrap/32287] gas version style changed causes warnings with configure
- From: "hjl dot tools at gmail dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 21 Jan 2008 21:57:49 -0000
- Subject: [Bug bootstrap/32287] gas version style changed causes warnings with configure
- References: <bug-32287-13830@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- Comment #12 from hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-01-21 21:57 -------
(In reply to comment #11)
> Subject: Re: gas version style changed causes
> warnings with configure
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:43:09PM -0000, hjl dot tools at gmail dot com wrote:
> > The second line isn't needed. I checked the following versions:
> >
> > ./check "GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-5.fc6 20061020"
> > ./check "GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.12-4 20070128"
> > ./check "GNU ld version 2.15.92.0.2 20040927"
> > ./check "GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.20070913"
> > ./check "GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.0.1.20070906"
> > ./check "GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.20070726-12 (SUSE Linux)"
> > ./check "GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.17.50.20070426"
> >
> > and they work fine. Do you have more to add?
>
> It will fail on any line that contains xx.yy after the binutils
> version. Didn't that used to happen?
It worked on binutils 2.9.1, which was released in Feb, 1999.
> If not we can remove basically the entire test. Once the first
> pattern matches the rest is mostly irrelevant.
Maybe they are irrelevant. Can you find a binutils which fails the current
linker version test?
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