Binutils on Sid compiled 2.4.17 fine, might be different for Woody. Peter.
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 06:33, Craig Dickson wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: > > Since 2.4.17 is out now I would use that - IMHO its the most stable > > Of course, it just came out yesterday, so any judgment on its stability > is premature. > > That said, I'm running 2.4.17 now and I haven't observed any problems > yet. > > Btw, Debian Woody/Sid users who want to compile recent 2.4 kernels will > probably find that they have to downgrade binutils to 2.11.92.0.10-4 to > avoid weird build failures. I couldn't build 2.4.17 with the newest > binutils. There are some existing bugs on these problems which appear to > have been assigned to the kernel-source maintainer (not, as one might > expect, the binutils maintainer, though the bugs were originally filed > against binutils). > > This old version of binutils may be obtained from my archive site at > http://crdic.ath.cx/debian (use a web browser, not dpkg -- it's not a > proper package repository, just a directory with a bunch of packages in > it). You can also use TuxFinder at http://www.tuxfinder.org, which has > options to search for .deb files. > > Craig
