install.texi and alpha (was: Target maintainers: doc/install.texi love and care)

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Sun Mar 12 11:29:00 GMT 2017


On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Also, I'm offering help around one particular aspect I noticed:
> 
> References to dependencies on really, really old versions of
> binutils (talking 10+ years here) which I think we can remove.
> Let me follow-up with some of you with concrete suggestions 
> around that.

The alpha*-*-* section currently has this:

  We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer.
  Previous binutils releases had a number of problems with DWARF 2
  debugging information, not the least of which is incorrect linking of
  shared libraries.

Okay to yank this?

Gerald



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