Re: Libc patch no longer applies

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Thomas!

Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> skribis:

> ... and this did work!  That is, ``--build=i486-gnu --host=i486-gnu''
> configuration with GCC 4.4, plus old binutils downgraded to Debian
> package 2.20.1-2.
>
> And, on the other machine (with the 2010-04 trees), I built with recent
> binutils as a crosscheck.  As expected, I got the same failure as we've
> seen before.  The specific GCC 4.4 version doesn't appear to matter.
>
> I will next compare the object files of the two builds that only differ
> w.r.t. binutils.

Good to know, though it feels like a bit of black magic.  ;-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.