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

[Guido Draheim]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 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.

That's what I guessed from `ld --help` output.
Actually, I can test any patch for being fine for these version,
and for what its worth, I vote to to dump support for anything
earlier than those. So... if it works, I'm with it.