From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3922 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2003 16:26:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3915 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2003 16:26:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Apr 2003 16:26:29 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 198N4v-0006kk-00; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:26:37 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 198N4d-0006oY-00; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:26:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:26:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Dimitrie O. Paun" Cc: Nick Clifton , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: windres: -fo Message-ID: <20030423162619.GB24274@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Dimitrie O. Paun" , Nick Clifton , binutils@sources.redhat.com References: <200304230838.03255.dimi@intelliware.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304230838.03255.dimi@intelliware.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00450.txt.bz2 On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:38:03AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > On April 23, 2003 04:57 am, Nick Clifton wrote: > > * Silently accepts -fo, but does not advertise the fact in the > > --help output. > > Cool, I thought about doing that, I just don't know your policy > on these sort of things. > > > * Accepts both "-fo " and "-fo". Dimitirie's > > patch would only accept the second form, but I am not sure if this > > was deliberate. > > Yeah, it was. I didn't want to complicate the code needlessly. > The patch was providing the posibility to have a common command > line between windres and rc, not to cover all possible combinations. > Moreover, I'm not even sure rc supports the first version, only the > second form is documented by Microsoft. But since you've added it, > it's all good, it makes more sense to support both forms. > > Thanks! > > -- > Dimi. > > P.S. Any idea when we're gonna have a release? The Mozilla 1.4b is > due in about one week, would be nice to have a version of > binutils that we can recommend for building it. Right now > they checked in some really horiffic patches to work around > windres' problems, reverting them before the release would be > A Good Thing (TM). Less than a week is pretty unlikely :) I'd like to do this one quickly, though, and have a prerelease in a couple of days. We're pretty close; I need to make time for testing, and someone needs to investigate Joern's report. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer