Commit: Update libiberty

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Tue Jan 13 15:36:59 GMT 2026


On Jan 13 2026, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026, Nick Clifton wrote:
>
>>   It turns out that I had newer versions of the standard autotools in
>>   my search path, which is why I made those mistakes.
>
>  FWIW I use a local build of pristine autotools with a version suffix 
> appended to the respective commands and then $AUTOCONF/$AUTOM4TE envvar 
> overrides to avoid this very issue when updating binutils/GDB/GCC/glibc.  
> The suffix is a standard `configure' script feature, but there's a small 
> modification required to the build process so that there's no pkgdatadir 
> overlap between installed versions.  I can share the details if that 
> helped.  It has worked for me for decades.

Alternatively, you can configure with a unique --prefix and modify PATH
as needed for each use.

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