"Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@cotw.com> writes:
> Greetings.
>
> Please find attached a patch to GLIBC that is compatible with
> the new version of binutils (HJLu's and CVS at least). I have
> also added some cruft in 'configure.in' that will produce
> warning messages if a user attempt to use old binutils. Comments
> are welcome. I have gone out on a limb and also included a
> Changelog entry in case this patch actually gets accepted :).
> This patch will apply against the CVS version of GLIBC. Please
> regenerate 'configure'. Thanks.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> ***** Changelog entry *****
> * sysdeps/mips/rtld-ldscript.in: removed unneeded binary
> output format directive
Ok.
> * configure.in: added in checking for obsolete binutils
> for MIPS targets which produces a warning message if
> user attempts to use older tools.
> ***************************
Let's do this differently. I'm appending a patch that does it more
the "glibc way". I've committed everything to CVS including a patch
for the FAQ. I hope I got the version numbers right.
Thanks,
Andreas
2001-05-11 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.in: Check binutils version on
MIPS.
============================================================
Index: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.in
--- sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.in 2001/03/16 07:35:59 1.37
+++ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.in 2001/05/11 12:58:25
@@ -191,3 +191,14 @@
AC_MSG_RESULT(ok)
fi
fi
+
+case "$machine" in
+ mips*)
+ AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(AS, $AS, --version,
+ [GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\(-ia64-[0-9]*\)*\)],
+ [2.11.90.0.[5-9]* | 2.11.90.[1-9]* | 2.11.9[1-9]* | 2.11.[1-9]* | 2.1[2-9]*| 2.[2-9]*],
+ AC_MSG_WARN([*** Your binutils versions are too old.
+*** We strongly advise to update binutils. For details check
+*** the FAQ and INSTALL documents.]))
+ ;;
+esac
--
Andreas Jaeger
SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
private aj@arthur.inka.de
http://www.suse.de/~aj
