kilauea compilation breaks with v3.3 kernel and ELDK 4.2

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Thu Apr 5 10:02:28 EST 2012


On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:21:01 +0200 Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>
> The kernel README says nothing about binutils requirements, the only
> tool related statement is "Make sure you have at least gcc 3.2
> available."  Actually I doubt if gcc 3.2 wouldbuild a working kernel
> image.
> 
> ELDK 4.2 is based on gcc version 4.2.2 / binutils version 2.17.50.0.12
> 20070128.  This is obviously to old for this code.  I do not see an
> actual problem with that - nobody can expect that we support old tol
> chain versions forever.

The requirements are documented in Documentation/Changes where we say we
need gcc 3.2 and binutils 2.12.  Not that that is very relevant to this
discussion. ;-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
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