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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2017-06-28 11:31:50 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2017-06-28 11:31:50 +0000
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Require binutils 2.25 or later to build glibc.
This patch implements a requirement of binutils >= 2.25 (up from 2.22)
to build glibc.  Tests for 2.24 or later on x86_64 and s390 are
removed.  It was already the case, as indicated by buildbot results,
that 2.24 was too old for building tests for 32-bit x86 (produced
internal linker errors linking elf/tst-gnu2-tls1mod.so).  I don't know
if any configure tests for binutils features are obsolete given the
increased version requirement.

Tested for x86_64.

	* configure.ac (AS): Require binutils 2.25 or later.
	(LD): Likewise.
	* configure: Regenerated.
	* sysdeps/s390/configure.ac (AS): Remove version check.
	* sysdeps/s390/configure: Regenerated.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/configure.ac (AS): Remove version check.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/configure: Regenerated.
	* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
	requirement for binutils 2.25 or later.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ Version 2.26
   C Library is GCC 4.9.  Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
   still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
 
+* The minimum GNU Binutils version that can be used to build this version of
+  the GNU C Library is Binutils 2.25.
+
 * Support is added, on powerpc64le, x86_64, x86 and ia64, for interfaces
   supporting the _Float128 type from ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.  Most of the
   interfaces are taken from TS 18661-3.  The type-generic macros in <math.h>