Are binutils 2.26 and earlier still maintained?
John Darrington
john@darrington.wattle.id.au
Thu Aug 9 16:53:00 GMT 2018
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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