On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ryan Murray wrote: > With the change in ABI, it is my understanding that all existing binaries in > the Debain archive need to be rebuilt, using the new ABI. In this case, we > should request a purge of all existing binaries, and start uploading binaries > with the new ABI. > > What are other people's thoughts on this? > > ~64% of Debian is built for mips. ~2% is built for mipsel. both are using > the old mips ABI.
Ugh...this sounds familiar (had a similar situation on Alpha many moons ago). Has everyone given up trying to find a backwards-compatible solution to this situation? Honestly, I haven't looked into it too much yet. I can always revert the changes to binutils for now until a better solution is found... C
