Explain why some binutils are blacklisted

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Hervé Poussineau 2007-09-06 08:25:57 +00:00
parent 0eccb4aa9d
commit 6bd9e7bed6

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@ -898,6 +898,12 @@ MingwBackend::IsSupportedBinutilsVersion ( const string& binutilsVersion )
return true;
}
/*
* - Binutils older than 2003/10/01 have broken windres which can't handle
* icons with alpha channel.
* - Binutils between 2004/09/02 and 2004/10/08 have broken handling of
* forward exports in dlltool.
*/
if ( ( ( strcmp ( binutilsVersion.c_str (), "20040902") >= 0 ) &&
( strcmp ( binutilsVersion.c_str (), "20041008") <= 0 ) ) ||
( strcmp ( binutilsVersion.c_str (), "20031001") < 0 ) )