Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri May 02 2008 - 05:09:53 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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