Makefile check for older binutils broken?

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:10:54AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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.

Yes thats bullshit (it does not work actually).

Give me some time figure out whats going to avoid wasting your time.

Sorry.