On 9 May 2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > Alternatively define rtld-oformat to elf(32|64)-trad(little|big)mips > > where appropriate and require a minimal version of binutils in > > sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/configure.in. The requirement should be > > forced anyway and I guess version 2.11.1 may be a good candidate once it's > > out. > > Let's test features and not version numbers if possible. We have HJ > Lu's binutils and the official binutils and we should be careful here > testing for versions. You are right wrt elf(32|64)-trad(little|big)mips, indeed. Still released binutils before 2.11 have troubles with versioning and other bits on MIPS and that's tough to test for. So we should really force users to make use of a recent enough version of binutils. By choosing 2.11.1 as an absolute minimum we could supposedly eliminate a test for elf(32|64)-trad(little|big)mips, but an additional test won't hurt for sure. As to H.J.Lu's binutils I see no problem. He consciously chose an unambiguous versioning style, so we may have distinct rules for FSF and H.J.Lu's binutils. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
