Re: Binutils 2.15.97 available

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Thursday 21 April 2005 04:58 am, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> >>it's probably just a matter of i havent been around long enough to
> >> understand exactly how the release process works, but the 2.16.90.0.1
> >> snapshot rolled by H. J. Lu included the '-linux-gnu*' to '-linux-*'
> >> changes while 2.15.97 does not ...
> >>
> >>i thought the patch went into both mainline and the 2.16 branch, so what
> >> am i missing ? :/
> >
> > I don't believe it went in to 2.16.
>
> That's right.
>
> Since this is a potentially controversial patch I thought that it would
> be better to just apply it to the mainline sources and not the 2.16
> branch.  That way if the wider free software community complains about
> the change they will not have any grounds to reject an official binutils
> release, but instead can complain about its presence in the development
> sources.

ah, ok ... i'll just rip the patch from mainline for use in uClibc / Gentoo 
then

thanks all :)
-mike