Re: binutils 2.20 gone missing?

[nick clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Seb,

> I'm trying to reproduce a toolchain from source to the point of being
> able to produce binary identical output from an tag of our sources.
> The toolchain used to use 2.20, so that's what I was going for. I
> wanted to know why 2.20 had been removed. I.e. was it an accident or
> was there some serious flaw with it and it was recalled. In that
> latter case I need to think about whether we really DO want to produce
> binary identical output or rather get the benefit of not having the
> flaw. (whatever that might be).

To be honest with you, I do not know why it was pulled from the FSF's 
website.  Space considerations maybe ?  2.20,1 is a bug-fix-only 
improvement on the 2.20 sources, so if the FSF servers are running out 
of room, it would make sense to only include the latest version of each 
major release.

Since you are able to find the 2.20 release elsewhere I would suggest 
that you stick with that.  At least until you encounter problems which 
might be fixed by a later release.

Cheers
  Nick