Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Fergus wrote:
> Two packaging oddities after this update:
> 
> 1) New directory \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\ containing
> 
> \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin
> \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ar.exe.lnk
> \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\as.exe.lnk
> \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ld.exe.lnk
> \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\nm.exe.lnk
> \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ranlib.exe.lnk
> \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\strip.exe.lnk

  What's with the wrong slashes?  Anyway, that's not new, the old one had it too:

$ tar tfj binutils-20080624-2.tar.bz2 | grep 'i686-pc-cygwin'
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ar.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/nm.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ranlib.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/strip.exe

$ tar tfj binutils-2.19.51-1.tar.bz2 | grep 'i686-pc-cygwin'
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ar.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/nm.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ranlib.exe
usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/strip.exe

$

(you can add 'v' to tar options to check that they're links in both cases;
they are.)

> 2) New directory \usr\i686-pc-mingw32\ containing
> 
> \usr\i686-pc-mingw32\include.lnk
> \usr\i686-pc-mingw32\lib.lnk
> \usr\i686-pc-mingw32\bin.lnk

  Don't know where you picked up that, but it wasn't from binutils:

$ tar tfj binutils-2.19.51-1.tar.bz2 | grep 'i686-pc-ming'

$

> Also (3) I get a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION as reported by others
> 
>>bash

  This is not a binutils bug report any longer!  Try downgrading bash; there's
a problem with the new libreadline7 build, which hopefully a respin with gcc-4
and this new binutils will fix.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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