On 2014-12-19, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2014-12-19, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: >> In the thread >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-support/0eDV-fbXXyE >> somebody on 32-bit x86 Debian Linux couldn't compile Sage due to an >> outdated assembler not supporting the "rep ret" instruction which our >> GCC-4.9.2 generates. >> >> According to >> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gas/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_24 >> one requires GNU assembler version 2.23 which isn't even in Debian unstable. > > both Debian unstable and testing ship binutils version 2.24. > Do you mean to say they package old gas there?
Certainly they don't do this; on jessie they ship GNU assembler version 2.24.90 >> What should we do about this? Just document it? Ship our own version of >> binutils? I'd say just document; after all installing a newer binutils should not be a problem on Debian, and it's for old hardware + one particular OS flavour. Dima -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
