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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>,  Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: GNU hash-style compatibility problem on x86_64
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708140907.30639.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070814130154.GA22485@lucon.org>

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On Tuesday 14 August 2007, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:56:38AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:47:47AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > Well, it sounds like a bug in binutils 2.17. There are so many of them
> > > and they have been fixed in the current binutils. I don't want to spend
> > > time on it unless it is reproducible in the current binutils.
> >
> > But wasn't the point of --hash-style=both to be compatible with older
> > tools?
>
> I don't recommend older tools on Linux. If it forces users to use
> the current binutils on Linux, it is even better.

except that binutils-2.17 is "current binutils" ... not everyone recognizes 
the snapshots as real releases (since they arent real GNU releases)
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-14  7:22 Greg Schafer
2007-08-14 12:48 ` H.J. Lu
2007-08-14 12:56   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-14 13:02     ` H.J. Lu
2007-08-14 13:07       ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2007-08-14 13:23         ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-08-14 13:31           ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-14 13:39           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-14 22:45     ` Greg Schafer
2007-08-14 23:35       ` DJ Delorie
2007-08-15  0:58         ` Greg Schafer
2007-08-15  1:01           ` DJ Delorie
2007-08-25  0:05           ` Eric Botcazou
2007-08-29 17:12             ` Mike Frysinger

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