binutils 2.9 branch created

binutils 2.9 branch created

[Ian Lance Taylor]

I've created the binutils 2.9 branch, and Ken has switched over the
snapshot generation script.  That means that starting with tomorrow's
snapshot (980331), the snapshots will be taken from the release
branch.  The 980331 snapshot will become the binutils 2.9 release,
modulo any patches I get soon.

I encourage everybody to download the snapshot and test it,
particularly people working on free systems.

Unless I get a bunch of patches, I'd like to get the release out next
week.

Please send any patches to the gas2 and/or bfd mailing list, so that
others can see the patches.  If you see a patch go by which looks
wrong or destabilizing, please send a note about it.  Thanks.

Ian

A bfd patch to binutils 2.9

[H.J. Lu]

They are used to update those generated files with "make diststuff".


H.J.
---
Fri Mar 20 21:45:01 1998  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)

	* Makefile.am (diststuff): New target.

	* Makefile.in: Rebuild.

Index: bfd/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/work/cvs/gnu/binutils/bfd/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.7
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.1.1.7 -r1.12
--- Makefile.am	1998/03/02 17:28:56	1.1.1.7
+++ Makefile.am	1998/03/21 05:46:04	1.12
@@ -542,6 +550,8 @@
 	cp $(docdir)/libcoff.h libcoff.h-new
 	$(SHELL) $(srcdir)/../move-if-change libcoff.h-new $(srcdir)/libcoff.h
 
+diststuff: info headers
+
 # We only rebuild the header files automatically if we have been
 # configured with --enable-maintainer-mode.
 

Fri Mar 20 19:46:45 1998  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)

	* Makefile.am (STAGESTUFF): Remove *.info*.

	* Makefile.in: Rebuilt.

Index: bfd/doc/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/work/cvs/gnu/binutils/bfd/doc/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.3
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1.1.3 -r1.2
--- Makefile.am	1998/02/17 17:04:52	1.1.1.3
+++ Makefile.am	1998/03/21 03:48:09	1.2
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 	$(srcdir)/../cpu-i960.c $(srcdir)/../archures.c \
 	$(srcdir)/../init.c
 
-STAGESTUFF = $(DOCFILES) *.info*
+STAGESTUFF = $(DOCFILES)
 
 TEXIDIR = $(srcdir)/../../texinfo/fsf
 

Re: binutils 2.9 branch created

[Manfred Hollstein]

I just checked the gas-980331 snapshot on these configurations:

  - hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
  - m68k-motorola-sysv (aka `delta')
  - m88k-motorola-sysv3 (aka `delta88')
  - sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
  - sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4

I didn't observe any problem!

manfred

Re: binutils 2.9 branch created

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Wed, 1 April 1998, 15:11:40, manfred@s-direktnet.de wrote:

 > I just checked the gas-980331 snapshot on these configurations:
 > 
 >   - hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
 >   - m68k-motorola-sysv (aka `delta')
 >   - m88k-motorola-sysv3 (aka `delta88')
 >   - sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
 >   - sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
 > 
 > I didn't observe any problem!

But, on i586-linux-gnulibc1 building current  egcs snapshot (from CVS)
fails (stage1/cc1 is calling abort  while compiling getopt.c)!   Using
H.J. Lu's binutils-2.8.1.0.15 instead doesn't show such problems!

Unfortunately, I have no idea what's going on.

Re: binutils 2.9 branch created

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Wed, 1 April 1998, 21:00:54, manfred@s-direktnet.de wrote:

 > On Wed, 1 April 1998, 15:11:40, manfred@s-direktnet.de wrote:
 > 
 >  > I just checked the gas-980331 snapshot on these configurations:
 >  > 
 >  >   - hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
 >  >   - m68k-motorola-sysv (aka `delta')
 >  >   - m88k-motorola-sysv3 (aka `delta88')
 >  >   - sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
 >  >   - sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
 >  > 
 >  > I didn't observe any problem!
 > 
 > But, on i586-linux-gnulibc1 building current  egcs snapshot (from CVS)
 > fails (stage1/cc1 is calling abort  while compiling getopt.c)!   Using
 > H.J. Lu's binutils-2.8.1.0.15 instead doesn't show such problems!

Nope, I was too fast. Two minutes after having sent this message:

stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -c  -DIN_GCC   -DUSE_GNULIBC_1 -O9 -funroll-all-loops -g -DUSE_GAS -DUSE_GLD -march=pentium -mcpu=pentium -malign-loops=0 -malign-jumps=0 -malign-functions=0 -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H     -I. -I../../egcs-980401/gcc -I../../egcs-980401/gcc/config ../../egcs-980401/gcc/getopt.c
../../egcs-980401/gcc/getopt.c: In function `_getopt_initialize':
../../egcs-980401/gcc/getopt.c:386: warning: unused parameter `argc'
../../egcs-980401/gcc/getopt.c:387: warning: unused parameter `argv'
xgcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6

So, it's most likely a problem with egcs.

Please accept my apology for any confusion.

manfred