------- Comment #12 from hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-01-21 21:57 ------- (In reply to comment #11) > Subject: Re: gas version style changed causes > warnings with configure > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:43:09PM -0000, hjl dot tools at gmail dot com > wrote: > > The second line isn't needed. I checked the following versions: > > > > ./check "GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-5.fc6 20061020" > > ./check "GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.12-4 20070128" > > ./check "GNU ld version 2.15.92.0.2 20040927" > > ./check "GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.20070913" > > ./check "GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.0.1.20070906" > > ./check "GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.20070726-12 (SUSE Linux)" > > ./check "GNU assembler (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.17.50.20070426" > > > > and they work fine. Do you have more to add? > > It will fail on any line that contains xx.yy after the binutils > version. Didn't that used to happen?
It worked on binutils 2.9.1, which was released in Feb, 1999. > If not we can remove basically the entire test. Once the first > pattern matches the rest is mostly irrelevant. Maybe they are irrelevant. Can you find a binutils which fails the current linker version test? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32287
