Re: Are binutils 2.26 and earlier still maintained?

[John Darrington <john at darrington dot wattle dot id dot au>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 06:40:49PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
     On 08/09/2018 05:52 PM, John Darrington wrote:
     >On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 02:16:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
     >      I'm trying to find out which binutils releases still have upstream support.
     >      Is there a document to which I can point people?
     >      On the glibc side, we generally only support toolchain components which
     >      still have upstream support, and binutils 2.26 and earlier have issues on
     >      some platforms.  This is why I want to move the general minimum
     >      requirement to a later version, with upstream support.
     >

     
     ?Support? means that you will provided fixes needed by the larger GNU
     ecosystem, so that people do not have to upgrade to a later version when
     GCC or glibc changes expose latent bugs, but can apply a patch from a
     release branch instead.


So far as I'm aware binutils doesn't do that, but I suppose only Nick is 
competent to definitively answer that question.

J'

PS:  The GNU Project asks that you not use the word "ecosystem" when describing their
operating system.  [ https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Ecosystem ]

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