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Subject: Re: Porting Binutils to DJGPP
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:22:50 -0700 (PDT)
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On Oct 6, 1:46 pm, Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pave DOT  DOT  DOT  AT iki DOT fi> wrote:
> vivekian wrote:
> > On Oct 5, 10:18 am, Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pave DOT  DOT  DOT  AT iki DOT fi> wrote:
>
> >> Are You sure binutils-2.18 is not enough?
>
> >> Building 2.18 for DJGPP is not too difficult. 2.18.50.0.X is worse.
>
> >> Andris
>
> > One of the features which i need -- support for MOVNTDQA is only
> > available in gcc 4.3.2 and binutils version 2.18.50.0.3:
> >http://www.nabble.com/The-Linux-binutils-2.18.50.0.9-is-released-td19...
>
> > Thats the only reason i ask for it else i would be happy with
> > binutils-2.18 itself.
>
> I would then suggest to try 2.18.92 from sources.redhat.com
>
> There are several steps to be done for porting:
> - fixing libeberty build (see how I did it for GCC-4.3.2). You need also
>    autoconf-2.59 for this (exactly that version). gcc-4.3.2 was better in this part.
> - fixing DJGPP linker scripts (see last available DJGPP ports of binutils or my
>    SRPM package available fromftp://ftp.delorie.com)
>
> Andris

Thanks Andris.
One further question : How does one go about fixing the libeberty
build ? Any pointers ?