https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101843
--- Comment #2 from john henning <mailboxnotfound at yahoo dot com> --- If this is a doc bug, then two documentation comments and one other thought. (1) https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/changes.html says that certain functionality requires “Binutils version 2.36 or later”. Perhaps that would have been better without the "or later". (2) Maybe one handy place to document the right version would be in the comments to contrib/download_prerequisites For many (most?) systems binutils is not a prerequisite. But sometimes, it is (*) and perhaps the comments to download_prerequisites could include some guidance. (3) Or maybe instead of a comment, it could be an option, like download_prerequisites --with-binutils in which case it would automatically grab the version that is deemed likely to be useful. ---------- (*) For example, in the days of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1552529 Jacob Jelinek commented "You are trying to use f29 gcc with some older binutils (non-f29). Don't do that." Right now, I am building on several systems; I think only one of them will actually end up requiring it.
