Re: Problem faced in building binutil

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Meena,

> > ../../binutils-2.19.1/gas/config/tc-mips.c:3459: error: format not a
> > > string literal and no format arguments

> Is this problem is specific to ubuntu linux client?

Err not the client, but the version of gcc that you are using.

> This is because We are not getting this error on cygwin client.

Right.  If you check the version of gcc that you have installed in your 
Cygwin environment you will find that it is an earlier version than the 
one that is installed in your Ubuntu environment.

> Could you please tell from where I can get the updated source?

Sure - check out the "obtaining binutils" section of this web page:

  http://sourceware.org/binutils/

Cheers
  Nick