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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
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X-Yow: How's it going in those MODULAR LOVE UNITS??
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:02:09 +0100
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Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> writes:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> writes:
>>> So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux
>>> kernel versions with new binutils do?
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrote:
>> The same that testers have to do in order to build old Linux kernel
>> versions with current versions of make.
>
> Are you saying it's OK to screw over binutils users because GNU Make
> did that too?

I'm just telling you the facts.

Andreas.

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