Re: Required binutils version ?

[Jonathan Wakely <cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:45:14PM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> 
> > Since I'm trying to tidy up all v3's install docs I'd like to know what
> > the minimum required binutils is nowadays.  Does anyone know for sure?
> > (I'm not sure I even understand the binutils version numbers, so I'm not
> > clear at all!)
> 
> The minimum versions of binutils for libstdc++ is now 2.15.90.0.1.1.
> This applies to 4.0.1 and mainline. 
> 
> I would be very greatful if  you could push this info out to the
> appropriate places.
> 
> I don't know about 3.4.x. or 4.0.0. However, 2.14. or greater has been
> required by libstdc++ on linux targets for at least one or two years.

Attached patch updates the libstdc++ install.html file.  I'll prepare
something later for the main GCC install.texi, that indicates that
libstdc++ has its own requirements for binutils so you should check the
libstdc++ docs.

Is this OK for mainline?

jon

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