Re: [Mingw-users] Re: "Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32" and "Re: Building a MinGW GLibetc..."

[Earnie Boyd]

Guido Draheim wrote:
> 
> >
> > There is one major decision that needs to be made: Keep or remove support 
> > for
> > old versions of the mingw toolchain.
> > All the -mdll stuff is deprecated in favour of gcc -shared now.
> >
> > Option 1) Remove support pre "gcc -shared" toolchains
> > Pro: simplifies maintenance.
> > Con: might upset some people.
> 
> How old may a gcc/binutils pair be? My oldest crosscompilers
> are gcc 2.95.3 and ld --version reports 2.11.90.8. And for
> all I know, these are in fact the oldest versions around,
> no one want to go back beyond, I guess.
> 
> Is that enough, Max?
> 

Current distribution is GCC-3.2 and binutils-2.13.  Yes, the versions
you have are old enough to support.  They also include all that's
needed, IIRC.

Earnie.