On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 01:35:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

	Has anyone attempted to build the binutils fixed RPM with the old
buggy binutils. Im trying this right now and Im getting

Im now off to rebuild it from scratch with the static new linker to see what
occurs

I just checked the binutils on my (Intel ...) laptop.  Libbfd contains
DT_NEEDED entries for libc.so.6.  This means that libbfd was linked
against libc which will make binutils 2.7 produce bad executables.

Suggested bootstrap procedure:

  - restore your old binutils 2.7 binaries
  - manually rebuild binutils 2.8.1 + patch.  When configuring binutils
    2.8.1 do not use the --enable-shared option, it will make binutils
    2.7 generate bad libraries.
  - install the binutils just built
  - You should now be able to rebuild the rpm without problems

  Ralf