From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: meissner@cygnus.com
To: Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com, law@cygnus.com
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: install stuff
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 09:03:00 -0000
Message-id: <199712011703.MAA18782@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00027.html

|   > powerpc-*-linux-gnu*:
|   > You will need binutils-2.8.1.0.17 available from
|   > < ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl > for a working egcs. It is strongly
|   > recommended to recompile binutils with egcs if you initially built it with
|   > gcc-2.7.2.*.
| Is this really correct?? -- I know Meissner's been working with a ppc/linux
| box, but I don't know if he's using the new binutils.  Exactly what problems
| does this binutils fix?

Yes you need a new binutils (either the gas snapshot in the egcs directory or
HJ's new binutils release).  The specific problem I noticed was the patch that
put @local on calls to local functions would not work with the old gas.