On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:26:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Why not just ship an old binutils/gcc to build the old libc5 binaries? > I really don't understand why this is such a difficult problem. If, for > instance, gcc 2.7.2 could build these things three years ago, why can't it > now? It's not as if some fundamental kernel structures have changed in a > hugely incompatible way; other binaries from that era work fine.
That's what we have been doing for GCC: | $ i486-linuxlibc1-gcc --version | 2.7.2.3 (though not for binutils). -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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