On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:10:02PM -0400, Stefan Teleman wrote: > They do need to be in /usr/gnu/gcc4, because these binutils are specific > to/for GCC4. We don't know what happens when we integrate GCC5. "Things" > might not be backwards compatible with GCC4, and we most likely want to > keep the older GCC4 version around for a while.
I thought binutils was generally pretty good about backwards compatibility -- that you could always have the latest version on your system and have it work with the old compilers. Is that not actually the case, or is known not to be the case in the future? Danek
