On 05/24/2012 03:21 PM, Rob Spanton wrote:
Hi Ralf,
I wrote:
So is it best to attempt to get one arm-binutils package and remove
redundancy, or is it going to be more productive to just put up with
the redundancy for now?
Ralf wrote:
No, this will hardly work and would be a nightmare to maintain.
I had guessed that binutils didn't care what the ABI was.
True, AFAICS.
However, consider that
- binutils is only a comparativly small part of a target's toolchain.
- a target's binutils may require target-specific patching.
- there can be implicit couplings/incompatibilities between a target's
binutils and other components of a cross-toolchain.
Maybe I'm
wrong about that, or is there something else that I'm missing that'd
prevent this from working?
You are not necessarily wrong. I agree, using a "combined binutils" is
possibile in many cases (But not always).
It's just that, when taking into account that using a "combo" is close
to impossible for other components of a cross-toolchain (esp. GCC),
trying use "combined binutils" is simplier and "not worth the effort", IMO.
Ralf
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