On 11/07/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:30:15PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 11/07/07, Devendra Durgapal <ddlinuxinfo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have dev box setup on VMware workstation 6.0. In which I have rhel3 U8 >> AS >> OS. Where I am compiling linux-2.6.22.tar.gz kernel. >> > [snip] > > Hmm, that's pretty ancient. Are you sure your userspace is up to the > task of building the latest kernel? > > Try running scripts/ver_linux and compare the output to the versions > listed in Documentation/Changes for the latest kernel, see if any of > your tools need updating... From the error message it's obvious it's a binutils problem. The problem is that his binutils version is obove the one stated in Documentation/Changes but below the one actually required...
In that case, shouldn't we update Documentation/Changes ? Changes lists binutils 2.12 as the required version, if a higher version is needed (which one exactely?) we should list that instead. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
