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Re: binutils requirement
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:36:38PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I built glibc using binutils 2.12.1 on i386-linux today (it was a bit of an
> > accident, really...). It turns out that it doesn't work; you end up with
> > two symbols named __udivdi3 at GLIBC_2 dot 0, one hidden and one not. Should we
> > be checking the version at configure time?
>
> There is a configure check. Please figure out why it failed to catch your
> as and/or ld.
Aha. Are the patterns in AC_CHECK_PROG_VER anchored to the beginning
of the \(\) region? My guess is no; I was using binutils 2.12.1, which
matches "2.1[3-9]*" (the second 2).
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer