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."
Yes, distributions are patch happy. Maybe simply because their timeframe is too different from upstream.
//Peter