linux-kernel - Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} _

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Message-ID: <87skx1f4xo.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Fri, 02 May 2008 11:09:23 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Tom Rini <trini@...nel.crashing.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, bunk@...nel.org,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, vegard.nossum@...il.com
Subject: Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> Honestly, I nearly died when I built all those cross-compilers.  Sooooooo
> many combinations of gcc/binutils/glibc refused to work for obscure
> reasons.  Compilation on x86_64 just didn't work at all and I ended up
> having to build everything on a slow i386 box, etc, etc.  The stream of
> email to Dan got increasingly strident ;)

This might be pointing out the obvious, but to just update the compiler
from 4.1.0 to 4.1.2 (or other) you don't need to recompile binutils and glibc.

-Andi
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