Re: how close to binutils-2.12 previews

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:37:33PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:49:01PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am just curious how close to a preview tarball and
> > > release things are right now.
> > 
> > There's one particular set of Sparc failures and a Windows DLL bug I
> > would like addressed before release, but I don't know if they will be.
> > I need to figure out how to roll a prerelease tarball; with a little
> > bit of luck I can make one early next week and leave two or three weeks
> > for testing before release.  I don't see much point in holding off
> > longer.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.  This sounds great to me.  When the
> first preview is cut, I will try to roll RTEMS RPMs for them and
> give them a spin.  
> 
> FYI it looks like you can't even build gcc 3.0x for sh-coff/rtems
> or powerpc-eabi/elf/rtems without newer than 2.11.2 binutils so a
> 2.12 release will be good.

I suspect sh-coff is still broken, but powerpc-eabi should be fixed. 
If you have a chance, could you check sh-coff with CVS binutils?

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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