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[PATCH] make binutils 2.15 the min version for PPC
- From: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, Dwayne McConnell <dgm69 at us dot ibm dot com>, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 16:36:00 -0500
- Subject: [PATCH] make binutils 2.15 the min version for PPC
- Organization: IBM LTC
- Reply-to: sjmunroe at vnet dot ibm dot com
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Steve Munroe wrote:
>
> > How far back does glibc cvs head need to go relative to binutils?
>
> I don't have problems raising the bar. This just has to be enforced.
> 2.15 is out for some time so we could make it a requirement. This
> needs a change to configure, though.
If there are no objections from the community ... a configure patch to
enforce binutils 2.15 as the minimum for PowerPC (32- and 64-bit) is
attached.
2004-05-26 Steven Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com>
* sysdeps/powerpc/elf/configure.in: New file. Set binutils 2.15 as
the minimum for PowerPC.
diff -urN libc23-cvstip-20040526/sysdeps/powerpc/elf/configure.in libc23/sysdeps/powerpc/elf/configure.in
--- libc23-cvstip-20040526/sysdeps/powerpc/elf/configure.in Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
+++ libc23/sysdeps/powerpc/elf/configure.in Wed May 26 13:46:21 2004
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+GLIBC_PROVIDES dnl See aclocal.m4 in the top level source directory.
+# Local configure fragment for sysdeps/powerpc/elf.
+
+# Accept binutils 2.15 or newer, required for ".machine".
+AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(AS, $AS, --version,
+ [GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\)],
+ [2.1[5-9]*], AS=: critic_missing="$critic_missing as")