Re: Default manifest

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 5/15/2014 3:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 15 01:25, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 08:07:26PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> Are we close to a resolution of the problems with default manifests?  It
>>> looks to me like all the pieces are in place, but maybe I've missed
>>> something:
>>>
>>>    https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-04/msg01387.html
>>>    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16790#c9
>>>    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16807#c8
>>>
>>> I'm not trying to rush any maintainers, but I'm asking because I
>>> currently have to use a self-built version of binutils, which doesn't
>>> provide a default manifest, because of the problem I reported here:
>>>
>>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00199.html
>>
>> I'll update binutils ASAP.
>
> For the default manifest to get going we also need the patcha new GCC
> with Nick's patch from
>
>    https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-04/msg01378.html
>
> Is that easily backportable to GCC 4.8, or does 4.8 not support the
> %if-exists functionality?

JonY, any chance we could get a release of GCC that includes this patch?

Ken

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