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@hartwork hartwork commented Jun 1, 2025

With binutils <2.43 linking would fail with error:

/tmp/ccIZUmko.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccIZUmko.s:8: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.base64'

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With binutils <2.43 linking would fail with error:
> /tmp/ccIZUmko.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccIZUmko.s:8: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.base64'

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- GNU Binutils 2.43 Released
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-08/msg00001.html
- gcc-15 (15-20250404-0ubuntu1) [universe]
  https://packages.ubuntu.com/plucky/gcc-15
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thesamesam commented Jun 1, 2025

Note that it's because the GCC here was built against >=binutils-2.43. If it was built with an older binutils, it'd be fine. It just records the capabilities of the gas and ld at its time of configure

(Mostly saying this in case anyone googles the error and finds this.)

@hartwork hartwork changed the title Fix CI / full-check.yml: Fix installation of GCC 15 and binutils >=2.43 Fix CI by fixing the installation of GCC 15 and binutils >=2.43 Jun 1, 2025
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hartwork commented Jun 1, 2025

@thesamesam that makes good sense — thank you! 👍

@davidpolverari davidpolverari merged commit deae647 into resurrecting-open-source-projects:master Jun 1, 2025
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