remove old Linux/ARM cruft

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Mon Feb 26 05:51:00 GMT 2001


> >This seems a bit premature; my Netwinder still has an old linker installed,
> >and it's only about a year old.
> 
> Hmm.  Well, be that as it may, I'm still inclined to just say that folks 
> should upgrade to a recent version of binutils when installing GCC 3.0.  
> The "old" linker was neverin any released version of GNU binutils; you 
> can't use it to build the Linux kernel, and I wouldn't be surprised if it 
> had trouble with things like glibc as well.
> 

OK, provided that it can be shown that requiring such an upgrade does not 
break the affected targets in some other way.

R.



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