On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Nick Clifton wrote:
>>> Okay to yank this?
>> Fine by me.
> Me too.
Okay, so I went ahead and committed the patch below.
> None. Are you intending to replace the requirement with a more recent
> version of the binutils, or just remove the requirement entirely ?
This is mostly about removing references to versions of binutils a
decade or so old. It's hard to imagine that anyone would give any
such old version a try in 2017 and fresher and shorter documentation
faces a better chance of actually being consumed.
Gerald
2017-03-18 Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com>
* doc/install.texi (Specific) <arm-*-eabi>: Remove old
requirement for binutils 2.13.
Index: doc/install.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/install.texi (revision 246253)
+++ doc/install.texi (working copy)
@@ -3367,10 +3367,7 @@
@end html
@anchor{arm-x-eabi}
@heading arm-*-eabi
-ARM-family processors. Subtargets that use the ELF object format
-require GNU binutils 2.13 or newer. Such subtargets include:
-@code{arm-*-netbsdelf}, @code{arm-*-*linux-*}
-and @code{arm-*-rtemseabi}.
+ARM-family processors.
Building the Ada frontend commonly fails (an infinite loop executing
@code{xsinfo}) if the host compiler is GNAT 4.8. Host compilers built from the
