On 2014-12-19, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On 2014-12-19, Jeroen Demeyer 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 outdated assembler not supporting the "rep ret" instruction which our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
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