On 11/07/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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...
Hmm, I know for a fact that $ ld -v GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.0.17.20070615 which is in Slackware Linux 12.0 and the previous one that was in Slackware 11.0 (binutils 2.15.92.0.2), both generate working kernels, but beyond that I can't offer anything useful. I guess we should find out what's actually required so it can be properly documented or else that's something that is likely to bite users :-( -- 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
