[PATCH 0/8] various build-system fixes and a coredump fix
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 02:20:21 GMT 2021
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 04:58:52PM +0100, Nick Alcock via Binutils wrote:
> The pptrtab fix needs backporting to 2.36; the installation-time fixes probably
> need applying all the way back to 2.34 if the users who reported the bugs are to
> get the fix. I'll do that if the trees are actually open for commits any
> more... 2.34 was some time ago!
They are open, but don't feel that you need to backport that far just
because a user reported a problem on an old release. It is probably
better for the project as a whole to encourage people to update to a
newer release. (I'm not saying don't backport to 2.34, that's
entirely up to you.)
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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