On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 15:30 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 15:16:50 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:12:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 09:27 +0300, Török Edwin wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Why does linux-tools-2.6 require a specific version of binutils? > > > It uses libbfd. > > > > Okay, so linux-2.6 is now part of a much larger bunch of tightly coupled > > packages. > > perf in "bundling userspace utilities in the kernel source tree is a bad > idea" shocker. > > Would it be possible to link it against libbfd.a instead? This might be sensible, as it will otherwise be impossible to keep linux-tools-* installed for a wide range of different kernel versions. However we would need to discuss this with the FTP and security teams. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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