On 04.04.2008 20:31, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:01:34PM -0600, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
binutils from gnu.org are a completely different beast compared to "linux binutils" shipped by almost all distributors.
No doubt. But I am compiling coreboot, not Linux.
I think the meaning was "found in Linux" rather than "meant for building Linux."
Indeed.
Yes, distributions are patch happy. Maybe simply because their timeframe is too different from upstream.
That, and sometimes it is difficult to get some "essential" patches merged upstream.
Regards, Carl-Daniel