Re: toolchain/46827: Cannot build the kernel, even Generic.

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/46827; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/46827: Cannot build the kernel, even Generic.
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:32:46 +0000

 (not sent to gnats-bugs)
 
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 From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
 To: Rifat Mahmud <rftmhmd%gmail.com@localhost>, 
toolchain-manager%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 Subject: Re: toolchain/46827: Cannot build the kernel, even Generic.
 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:15:59 -0400
 
 On Aug 24,  1:14am, rftmhmd%gmail.com@localhost (Rifat Mahmud) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: toolchain/46827: Cannot build the kernel, even Generic.
 
 | I think, the problem might be about version conflict GNU coreutils,
 | binutils and gcc in Linux and NetBSD. NetBSD codes might not be compatible
 | with latest utilities in Linux, the tool building commands show many
 | warnings about versions of bison etc.
 
 Partially. The problem is that the NetBSD-5 binutils are too old and
 they have buffer overflow bugs that are caught by SSP in newer versions
 of Linux.
 
 christos