Date:	Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:16:14 +0200 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: Binutils 2.9.5 beta 1 released
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mark E. wrote:

> Binutils 2.9.5 beta 1 is now available from SimTel mirrors. There are three 
> archives:
> 
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2951.README
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2951b.zip
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2951s.zip
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2951x.zip
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2951a.zip
> 
> GNU Binutils provide the basic tools for assembling and linking files 
> produced by the GCC compiler plus other tools that examine object and 
> executable files.
> 
> This release is based on the February 27, 2000 contents of the Binutils CVS 
> repository and so is not based on an official GNU release. The last release 
> is now almost two years old and a new one is not yet in the works. Given this 
> situation, releasing a newer version of Binutils for the DJGPP community for 
> use seems approriate.
> 

About CRC failures in bnu2951s.zip in Simtelnet:
	I also experienced similar problems with some attempts to upload
	gcc related archives to ftp.delorie.com (and as I remember I was
        not alone):

   	So perhaps we should always send MD5SUMs to DJ for tests and he
        should try to find a weak place where problems appears.

Now about this release:
	
I don't really need full source archive, only patch (diffs.dos).

1) It was DOS style text file. It would be better to have UNIX style text
   file (I'm patching binutils and building them for DJGPP using 
   cross-compiling under Linux)

2) Patch doesn't apply without questions to me (failure to find some
   files). I used patch-2.5.3 under Linux.

3) Is it really needed to patch configure (as it is generated file). If 
   one applies patches to different binutils snapshot he/she is expected
   to know how to use autoconf. At least patch for configure failed
   as perhaps You used file generated by DJGPP port of autoconf  

 
I haven't done any tests yet (with CVS version updated yesterday morning
- March 3, 2000) except I didn't met other problems building snapshot
for DJGPP under Linux.

Andris

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