gcc-4.2.4 x86->m68k cross compiler build error

[Ian Lance Taylor]

kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com> writes:

> To put it another way ... How recent of a binutils do you think I
> could run on such an old OS? 2.16.1 works with both NetBSD 1.6.1 on a
> Quadra 700 and Redhat 7.1 on a 386?

I don't know of any reason why you couldn't run the current binutils
release (2.21) on an old OS.  The binutils source code is intentionally
conservative.

Of course, I have not actually tried.

Ian