This one time, at band camp, Wookey said:
> On 2007-12-03 10:34 -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Greetings!  Thanks to Wookey's generous machine support, I believe
> > this bug is now closed with the latest uploads.
> > 
> > The arm binary file format apparently changed with gcc-4.2.  I had to
> > install a local version or gcc-4.2 to reproduce.  The solution is to
> > incorporate the latest binutils as well.  Still a bit mysteriously,
> > gcc-4.2 produces code giving an illegal instruction on Wookey's
> > netwinder.
> 
> Hmm. I bet something is putting out instuctions newer than v4 (A
> netwinder CPu (SA110) has an ARM v4 instruction set. This is
> (arguably) OK on armel, but should not be happening on arm - debian
> arm is still built to the ARM v4 spec.
> 
> > I guessed that this was a local installation issue,
> > apparently correctly, as gcl has autobuilt successfully on arm with
> > the latest gcc and binutils.  Would be nice to get a gcc-4.2 working
> > on this test machine, though, as it appears the only arm development
> > machine in the Debian world at the moment.
> 
> OK. I'll take alook at that. I'll be providing another (faster)
> debian-arm machine for building very soon. Should be done by the end
> of this week.

Vince Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Steve McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
also have arm porter machines they can provide access to.  I have no
idea whether or not they will have seen these requests or not.  Mailing
them directly should work fine, though.
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