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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

