Re: Bootstrap broken on various platforms - start the 48hr clock please

2012-09-04 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Steven Bosscher wrote: > Also, on at least powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu (a primary platform) and > sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu and probably others (PR54453). The breakage > is caused by drepper's patches at r190783 and r190787. The breakage > on powerpc64 is now almost a week old

Bootstrap broken on various platforms - start the 48hr clock please

2012-09-04 Thread Steven Bosscher
Hello, Bootstrap is currently broken on x86 targets with binutils 2.20 (from 2009) and older (PR54419) because the rdrand instruction is emitted but that instruction is only supported in binutils 2.21 and later. This means bootstrap is broken on almost all x86_64 machines in the compile farm for e