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GNU hash-style compatibility problem on x86_64

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Tue Aug 14 13:07:00 GMT 2007 
On Tuesday 14 August 2007, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:56:38AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:47:47AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > Well, it sounds like a bug in binutils 2.17. There are so many of them
> > > and they have been fixed in the current binutils. I don't want to spend
> > > time on it unless it is reproducible in the current binutils.
> >
> > But wasn't the point of --hash-style=both to be compatible with older
> > tools?
>
> I don't recommend older tools on Linux. If it forces users to use
> the current binutils on Linux, it is even better.

except that binutils-2.17 is "current binutils" ... not everyone recognizes 
the snapshots as real releases (since they arent real GNU releases)
-mike
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