Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:49:08 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: gcc2952s2.zip for next update of DJGPP port of gcc-2.95.2
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Also support of using weak symbols and .gnu.linkonce sections when
> > specially enabled by one command line option (-mbnu210) as suggested
> > by Mark Elbrecht about half a year ago. Note that one needs recent 
> > binutils snapshot to use this feature. This feature is off by default
> > unless somebody puts it into specs as default
> 
> This should probably be mentioned in the README.
> 
> > Maybe it's worth to make such binaries of some binutils snapshot
> > available from directories v2gnu/alphas or v2gnu/beta
> 
> What exactly prevents us from putting out Binutils 2.9.1 with some of the 
> latest enhancements on SimTel.NET?  Apart of the time needed to package
> it, that is?  I think 2.8.1 is too old to be still used.
> 

The problem is that these changes from Mark went into development
version of binutils. He made some patches to port these changes back
to binutils-2.9.1 as far as I remeber, but I don't know much about that. 

At least current development version of binutils builds for me without any
changes and provides these new features automatically.

Andris