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Owen Rudge <owen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > u have to update your binutils, or something similar...
>
> Is there a way of autodetecting the binutils version from the makefile
which
> would then cause an error to be displayed such as "You need version x.yz
of
> binutils to build Allegro" if an older version is detected?
one can parse the output from 'as -v' but that is unneccessary now that we
extensively test the assembler's capabilities. *any* version of the GNU
assembler should be sufficient to compile allegro at the moment. however it
doesn't mean using an old one without MMX support is a good idea. :-)
Sincerely Henrik Stokseth.
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