From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
binutils@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314121028.GD23257@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikOX_9G-kFEOCHJbnTootY4n4EPSounwjDjPiZc@mail.gmail.com>
* Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> writes:
> >> So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux
> >> kernel versions with new binutils do?
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The same that testers have to do in order to build old Linux kernel
> > versions with current versions of make.
>
> Are you saying it's OK to screw over binutils users because GNU Make
> did that too?
The claim is not even true.
While really old Linux versions wont build with fresh versions of Make, something
like v2.6.30, which is a 2 years old kernel, will build just fine, using latest
Make.
So lets stop coming up with all the wrong reasons to not fix this problem ...
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-11 16:58 H.J. Lu
2011-03-11 17:04 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-11 17:20 ` H.J. Lu
2011-03-14 8:44 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-14 9:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 10:41 ` Alan Modra
2011-03-14 10:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-14 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-14 10:52 ` Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=3AiLaw5Gnis8Ha4eRXirk0s-Cnk2zzN12YDpH__45869.1711457961$1300099861$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-14 11:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-14 11:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-03-14 12:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-14 12:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 12:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-14 13:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 14:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-14 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-03-14 12:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 13:16 ` git bisect plus fixes (was: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]) Ralf Wildenhues
2011-03-14 13:55 ` PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning] H.J. Lu
2011-03-16 23:56 ` Alan Modra
2011-03-18 11:20 ` Alan Modra
2011-03-18 11:59 ` Alan Modra
2011-03-14 11:02 Sedat Dilek
2011-03-14 11:25 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-14 11:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-14 11:39 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-03-14 11:53 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-03-14 12:22 ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-14 12:38 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-03-14 15:56 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-03-14 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-14 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-14 19:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-14 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-14 12:57 ` Ingo Molnar
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