binutils newer than 2.9.1

[Mumit Khan]

Brendan Simon <brendan@dgs.monash.edu.au> writes:
> Where can I find binutils releases that are newer version 2.9.1 ?
> I read in one of Mumit Khan's cross-compiler howtos that 2.9.4 is
> recommended for building the cygwin32/mingw32 compilers.  There is a
> reference to where to obtain these but I would like to latest tested
> release when building all the cross-compilers I am interested in (mainly
> powerpc and m68k).  I'd prefer not to use CVS as this might be too
> bleeding-edge for my purposes.

(I assume you've already seen Ian's response to your questions)

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

After you get these, unpack each one in the same place and you'll have
everything needed to rebuild binutils.

Regards,
Mumit