Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] build: specify minimum versions of make and binutils

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 11.02.16 at 11:59, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 03:42 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> I think it is quite relevant which version is to be picked: Anything
>> older no-one could legitimately report issues against (and I would
>> very much like to continue to be able to submit build fixes I find
>> necessary on those two old boxes I keep for a reason), while
>> stating something too old which even today we don't successfully
>> build with would be pretty odd.
> 
> So lets start with, for x86 whatever the older of the versions on the two
> boxes you refer to above and for ARM gcc 4.8 and binutils 2.24, which
> corresponds to what I happen to use for both arm32 and arm64 in my
> development environment.
> 
> Those are IMHO reasonable starting points but obviously they aren't set in
> stone and can be easily adjusted later if necessary.

Okay, fine with me then (albeit as said I can't guarantee that the
versions on those boxes [which are identical, it's just that one is a
32-bit one while the other is 64-bit] aren't heavily patched
compared to their upstream originals). This would make

binutils 2.16.91.0.5
gcc 4.1.2_20070115

Jan


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