*** bootstrap fails for 3.4.0 20040113 (experimental) on i586-suse-linux-gnu

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Robert Schiele wrote:
> Well, this technical solution would not really solve the problem.  It would
> still be possible that some vendor specific patch in my binutils, a hardware
> bug, or cosmic radiation might cause a failure.  And the same people would
> again be annoyed.

Personally, I wouldn't worry, or, more precisely: I believe the vallue of
your automatic tester and its failure reports is much higher than keeping
a few people non-annoyed (especially when they could easily filter your
reports).

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Then stop using a vendor-supplied binutils -- would a vanilla one really
> be hard to install?   I rather doubt hardware bugs or cosmic radiation
> will be a problem.

What's wrong with vendor supplied binutils?  All Linux distributions I
just checked use them, and I doubt that (like with GCC) anyone is really
using vanilla binutils in a distribution, so Robert's tests are in fact
quite real world.

Gerald