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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> * Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> writes:
>> 
>> > 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?
>> 
>> I'm just telling you the facts.
>
> And you are wrong

This is just ridiculous.  You are defining away facts just because they
don't fit your view.

> latest Make does not break reasonably old kernel builds such as
> v2.6.30.

$ git tag --contains 3c955b4 | head -1
v2.6.36

Andreas.

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