Getting ready for the 2.39 branch/release

[Vladimir Mezentsev]

On 6/22/22 12:35, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 21.06.22 13:09, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>>    It is time to think about the next GNU Binutils release.
>>
>>    Ideally I would like to make the release at the end of July
>>    which will be 6 months on from the 2.38 release. Unfortunately
>>    I am on vacation for two weeks in the middle of July (11-22) so
>>    either:
>>
>>    1. Someone else volunteers to make the 2.39 release.
>>
>>    2. I create the branch early (eg Saturday June 25) but then
>>       release late (eg Saturday July 30) and the global maintainers
>>       get to approve patches for the branch.
>>
>>       This does not give much time for people to get new features
>>       into the sources before the branch is cut...
>>
>>    3. I create the branch in a couple of week's time (eg Fri Jul 8)
>>       and then release early in August (eg Sat Aug 6) and again I
>>       ask the global maintainers for help in approving patches for
>>       the branch.
>>
>>    Thoughts ?
>
> Debian and Ubuntu are using the current trunk for the releases in 
> development. There's currently one issue that I'm aware of:
>
>   https://bugs.debian.org/1013244
>
> just asked the Debian mips porters about it.
>
> As I understand, some minor gprofng configuration issues are being 
> worked on.

  gprofng has these bugs:

ID    Product    Comp    Assignee▲ Status▲    Resolution    Summary
29131    binutils    gprofng    vladimir.mezentsev@oracle.com UNCO    No 
rule to make target 'gprofng.1', needed by 'all-am'. Stop. For arm
29191    binutils    gprofng    vladimir.mezentsev@oracle.com ASSI    
gprofng ignores --sysconfdir configuration option
29116    binutils    gprofng    vladimir.mezentsev@oracle.com ASSI    
gprofng fails to build on i686-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux-gnu

I plan to fix 29191 soon.
I cannot reproduce 29131.

I made a partial fix for 29116. I hope the issue is fixed for the Debian 
build.
But I can reproduce a similar issue if I configure my build with --host= 
and  -m32 options.
I plan to make an additional fix for 29116 soon.

-Vladimir

>
> Matthias