Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/06/30/02:14:56
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:07:31 -0400
> > From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> >
> > > That would mean that GCC 3.0 should have been released together with
> > > Binutils, since that's the only way of updating the built-in script.
> > > And likewise for the next releases of GCC and Binutils.
> >
> > If the script is written right, we shouldn't have to do this any more
> > often than Linux or other systems do.
>
> That's true. However, note that, unlinke GNU/Linux, our port is much
> less tested during development, and so more likely to suffer from
> bitrot. We also release djdev much less frequently than glibc's
> release cycle. For these two reasons, it's quite possible that we
> will need to change the script when GNU/Linux doesn't.
>
> Anyway, did you check how frequently do the Linux people modify the
> script? For all I know, they could be doing that every week or so ;-)
>
I don't think so. It is usually possible to use binutils versions in a
rather large range. Of course one can go to
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/
(binutils Linux versions from H.J.Lu) and see whether I'm right.
I don't have time for that now
Andris
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