Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker

From: Markus Trippelsdorf
Date: Wed Apr 11 2012 - 14:28:57 EST


On 2012.04.11 at 14:05 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:51:07AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> >
> > Yes. I use it regularly. The last problems were fixed two years ago.
> > Please try a more recent version.
>
> Thanks, I'll give that a try. Next stupid question; for a variety of
> reasons, the Corporate I/T folks require that I stay stuck on Ubuntu
> 10.04. Are there any incompatibility problems with using the most
> recently released binutils-gold and gcc 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1? Basically,
> can I just compile a new version of binutils, or do I need to upgrade
> my entire compiler toolchain?

Just compiling and installing a new binutils version should work fine.

(But you should nonetheless consider to also upgrade gcc, because
gcc-4.4 is ancient and not even officially maintained anymore...)

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Markus
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