Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/03/20/13:58:51
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:56:08PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>>I remember the discussion but I thought you'd fixed the problem rather
>>than dropping back to an earlier version. I guess I remembered wrong.
>
>I wish! Actually, it's really not worth the bother, since the
>development tree was till recently simply too unstable for x86-pe. I'm
>now using the latest CVS, added a few local changes, and I believe I
>now have a pretty stable configuration. There is still a problem with
>gas relocation in my code, but Doug Hunt has a fix (but no assignment
>on file yet, sigh) for it.
That's good to hear. I know that sourceware binutils has been unstable for
a while.
>There is now effort underway for the next official binutils release after
>a long hiatus. Sadly, the x86-pe backend is going to be broken; let's see
>if I can get at least the minimal stuff in the next week or so to get it
>to at least create runnable programs.
Good luck.
cgf
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