[openbeos] Re: Binutils-2.17 available
- From: "Brian Verre" <bverre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:09:37 -0600
Hello Oliver,
Thanks for the update.
Open team question:
Given that the GCC 4.0 branch has been frozen (development work on 4.1+
only) why not bring the haiku GCC4 compiler up to the 4.0.4 final
status, and update binutils up to current 2.17? Sounds worthwhile to
me...
It would seem to me that that the consistancy across haiku GCC branches
would help debugging, and keep haiku ontrack for GCC 4.x compatibility
down the road.
Who is actively building haiku with GCC4 and patching/rewriting
incompatible code?
Regards,
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Oliver Tappe
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:58 AM
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Binutils-2.17 available
Hi there,
triggered by the problems Marcus encountered when building his
PXE-bootloader, I have updated the legacy buildtools (aka gcc-2.95.3) to
use the binutils version 2.17 instead of version 2.15.
This improves the assembler (as) such that the PXE-bootloader builds
fine now, at least when building on BeOS. I suppose building on Linux
still fails as that uses the regular buildtools (gcc-4.0.2) which are
still bundled with some older binutils (2.16.1). Someone please shout if
there is a need to upgrade those binutils, too.
After today's changes, the new binutils seem to work just fine on all
versions of BeOS (which is in contrast to my mail on haiku-commits
yesterday).
I have tried to build haiku with the new binutils and it worked, but
that does not mean that there won't be any problems with it. So I should
be very grateful if you could test the new buildtools and tell me about
any problems you encounter. If everything is fine, I am going to prepare
a full BeBits release by the end of next week.
cheers,
Oliver
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