I regularly need to build old Linux kernels (as far back as 2.6), and have a variety of older versions of gcc installed and a shell script that knows what versions of gcc to use for what kernel versions. Using an old version of GCC is simple: you just specify it on the command line when doing the make:
$ cd linux-3.whatever $ make distclean $ make defconfig $ make GCC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.3.6 modules After some recent updates, I now get an 'ld' failure on some old kernel buils. From what I've read it seems that I now need to also use older binutils versions, and that's got me stumped. I've tried adding LD=/path/to/ld to the make, but that appears to be ignored. Can somebody give a clue how to specify the binutils to be used when building a Linux kernel? Thanks... -- Grant
