Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old. We already require GCC 5.1, which was released in 2015.
Bump the binutils version to 2.25.1, which was also released in 2015. Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org> --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++-- scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 19c286c23786..5fb6a60677ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C 5.1 gcc --version Clang/LLVM (optional) 11.0.0 clang --version GNU make 3.81 make --version bash 4.2 bash --version -binutils 2.23 ld -v +binutils 2.25.1 ld -v flex 2.5.35 flex --version bison 2.0 bison --version pahole 1.16 pahole --version @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed. Binutils -------- -Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel. +Binutils 2.25.1 or newer is needed to build the kernel. pkg-config ---------- diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh index 250925aab101..8b1edd1f7281 100755 --- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh +++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi case "$1" in binutils) - echo 2.23.0 + echo 2.25.1 ;; gcc) echo 5.1.0 -- 2.34.1