Makefile check for older binutils broken?

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:52:24AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:02:05PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:36:48AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > While trying to compile 2.6.14-rc4 on my Pegasos (running Debian unstable):
> > > 
> > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marcelo/8xx/linux-2.6.14-rc4'
> > > *** 2.6 kernels no longer build correctly with old versions of binutils.
> > > *** Please upgrade your binutils to 2.12.1 or newer
> > > make[2]: *** [checkbin] Error 1
> > 
> > What's your CONFIG_SHELL set to?
> 
> bash
> 
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > marcelo at pegasos:~$ /bin/echo dssall | as -many -o /tmp/output.as >/dev/null 2>&1
> > > marcelo at pegasos:~$ echo $?
> > 
> > What about if you run the whole test on shell (if ...), does it work there? 
> > What shell are you running?
> 
> Yep, that does the trick. Is it good now?

Er, that's odd.  I was using writing parens, not shell parens :)   Can
you test the failure case here by changing dssall to garbage?  Also,
that's not a clean patch, but vs your last one that wasn't valid.

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Tom Rini
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