On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:47:49PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 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.
"which one exactely?" is exactly the question...
cu
Adrian
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