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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
- <emphasis role="bold">binutils</emphasis> - recommended version is
- <emphasis role="bold">2.11.x</emphasis>.
+ <emphasis role="bold">binutils</emphasis> - GNU binutils 2.11 or later
+ is known to work.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- <emphasis role="bold">gcc</emphasis> - recommended versions are 2.95
- and 3.4+. 2.96 and 3.0.x are known to generate faulty code, 3.1 and
- 3.2 also had problems, 3.3 some minor ones. On PowerPC, use 4.x.
+ <emphasis role="bold">compiler</emphasis> - We mostly use gcc, the
+ recommended versions on x86 are 2.95 and 3.4+. On PowerPC, use 4.x+.
+ icc 10.1+ is also known to work.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<emphasis role="bold">Xorg/XFree86</emphasis> - recommended version is