From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20895 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2003 15:32:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20882 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 15:32:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aragorn.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.23) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 15:32:32 -0000 Received: from zaretsky (adsl-ayalon-pc-129-194.inter.net.il [213.8.129.194]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AET37063; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:32:22 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:32:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: mec@shout.net Message-Id: <1438-Wed05Feb2003172939+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <200302050813.h158DS731675@duracef.shout.net> (message from Michael Elizabeth Chastain on Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:13:28 -0600) Subject: Re: Where to document supported versions of binutils? Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <200302050813.h158DS731675@duracef.shout.net> X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:13:28 -0600 > From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain > > We've learned that, on native i686-pc-linux-gnu, gdb has bugs > with binutils prior to binutils 2.13. I saw this happen in my > test bed, and David Carlton also saw it happening on his system. > > Where do we record this knowledge so that gdb users can see it? > > There doesn't appear to be a obvious section in NEWS or README > for information like this. I think README is the place to tell this. We could also have the configure script run "ld --version" and print something if it doesn't like the result.