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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@obie.softweyr.com>
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To: Richard Lyon <rlyon@rlyon.mynet.au>
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Subject: Re: Is there a port of GNU ld for FreeBSD 2.1R?
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On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Wes Peters wrote:
% If you're attempting to use GCC 2.7.x, you *will* need to update gas,
% but you can still use the standard ld.

Richard Lyon asked:
 > Which gas version is this. I assume it is part of binutils 2.6.x .

That one works fine; I've been using it for about a month.  I think
the GCC-2.7 README (or INSTALL) specifically mentions 2.4 or later.