Re: tlug: Building a better beast: binutils 2.8 and 3Com 3C90x 'Boomerang' (adding a new driver to the kernel config)

[Christopher Wiles <wileyc@example.com>]

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tlug note from Christopher Wiles <wileyc@example.com>
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On Thu, 29 May 1997, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> In the process of building the new kernel, I discovered that binutils
> 2.8 eliminated the "-k/--raw" option from the objdump utility, which
> is used to build the compressed kernels.

*chuckle*  Remove /usr/bin/encaps -- the Makefile uses the existance of
this executable to switch between objcopy and encaps/objdump build
methods.

<RANT>

This change hasn't received nearly enough publicity -- especially in the
2.0.x-series kernels. encaps was a program included in HJ's bastardized
binutils-2.6.0.x distribution.  It did the *wrong* thing most of the time,
and was removed in binutils-2.7.  Instead of fixing objcopy, a
hacked-together utility was created ... and when objcopy was fixed, encaps
continues to wreak havoc ...

(obviously not a big fan of HJ)

</RANT>

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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