binutils newer than 2.9.1

[Brendan Simon]

Mumit Khan wrote:

> To get what I call binutils-2.9.4 in my howto, you can get either get
> the whole Cygwin source tree [1] (big!), or just get the pieces that
> form binutils separately [2] that you can combine to re-create the 2.9.4
> tree.
>
> [1] ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/cygwin-b20/
> [2] ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/cygwin-b20/src-by-top-dir/
>
> Here's what I had posted to the Cygwin mailing list a while back:
>
> Date:    Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:40:35 CST
> cc:      cygwin mailing list <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Subject: Re: How to compile binutils
>
> Thanks to DJ's addition of toplevel.tar.bz2, it's very complete.
> Here's a list of files needed for binutils-2.9.4 (I just wrote this
> up yesterday for my mingw-cross-howto guide, so you're in luck):
>
>   bfd.tar.bz2        gas.tar.bz2        ld.tar.bz2        toplevel.tar.bz2
>   binutils.tar.bz2   gprof.tar.bz2      libiberty.tar.bz2
>   config.tar.bz2     include.tar.bz2    opcodes.tar.bz2
>   etc.tar.bz2        intl.tar.bz2       texinfo.tar.bz2

I assume these files have other updates for targets other than
cygwin32/mingw32.  Is that correct ?
Is this site likely to be maintained/updated regularly or do you think that I
am better off using CVS and checking out snapshots that are known to be
reasonably reliable ?

Thanks,
Brendan Simon.