Re: binutils-2.21a missing from FTP site

[Matthew Burgess <matthew at linuxfromscratch dot org>]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:07:52 +0200, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Following the recent re-packaging of the binutils tarballs, I notice
> that 2.21 doesn't appear to have been rebuilt/re-uploaded.  I normally
> wouldn't even bother mentioning it, except that LFS-6.8 included
> binutils-2.21 and because of that includes links to that tar ball.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't really catch your point.  The repackaged 2.21.1 tar ball is named
> 2.21.1a, and indeed there is no repackaging for 2.21, which is deprecated
> by 2.21.1(a)
> 
> Is it possible for you to modify the link ?

Unfortunately, LFS-6.8 was released with instructions on how to build
binutils-2.21.  We can't/don't retrospectively change a released version of
the book.  The development version of the book already has links to 2.21.1a
there, so we're OK on that front.

If regenerating binutils-2.21 is too much trouble, or seen as pointless,
that's fine, we can just advise any of our users that ask about it to just use
2.21.1a.

Thanks,

Matt.