On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
By the way, IIRC Segher once wrote that binutils from gnu.org are a completely different beast compared to "linux binutils" shipped by almost all distributors.
In an ideal world coreboot would be buildable on a wide variety of binutils versions, but it seems to me that coreboot uses a number of linker features that just aren't well exercised and only a few people on the planet understand at all, judging from bug discussions on the binutils lists. Since I'm not one of them, I choose to be lazy and stop fighting binutils bugs.
So with the latest Fedora upgrade, I gave up on using the Fedora binutils and now build a gnu.org one from scratch (along with a complete cross-compiling toolchain for building a Linux payload with busybox, uClibc, etc.--I'm happy to share the build scripts if anyone is interested).
FWIW.
--Ed