Hi, On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > kevin diggs <diggskevin38@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Your gcc is passing --sysroot to the linker but the linker was not >>> configured with --with-sysroot. >>> >>> I think it's a bug that the linker has to be configured with >>> --with-sysroot in order to pass the --sysroot option to the linker. I >>> don't know why it works that way. >>> >>> Ian >>> > Thanks! This fixed that problem. ... >> Will this option work with binutils 2.16.1? It is not listed in the --help? > It appears to ... > Now that you mention it, why are you using such an old version of the > binutils? > > I've sometimes heard reasons for using old gcc releases, but I don't > know of any reasons to use old binutils releases. Old gcc releases > should work with new binutils. > > Ian > I did not want to stray to far from the original version that the rather dated OS running on the beast is using. To put it another way ... How recent of a binutils do you think I could run on such an old OS? 2.16.1 works with both NetBSD 1.6.1 on a Quadra 700 and Redhat 7.1 on a 386? kevin
