From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25430 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2015 05:28:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 25414 invoked by uid 89); 1 Jul 2015 05:28:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ig0-f175.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f175.google.com) (209.85.213.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 01 Jul 2015 05:28:40 +0000 Received: by igcsj18 with SMTP id sj18so125510049igc.1 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:28:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.107.8.210 with SMTP id h79mr32636615ioi.27.1435728518853; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:28:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.194.129 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:28:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: NightStrike Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 05:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Bootstrapping GCC 5.1.0 together with Binutils 2.25 To: Ondrej Jakubcik Cc: Jonathan Wakely , gcc-help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Ondrej Jakubcik wrote: > Ok, that's what I'll do then. I am fine if it is expected behaviour, > but in that case it would be best to remove the combined tree > suggestion from official documentation: > https://gcc.gnu.org/install/download.html > > Would it work if I checked out the appropriate tags from SVN or is > something being modified at the time of release that prevents using > the combined tree approach? I think the biggest issue is that while the releases of binutils and gcc are not in sync, the repository HEAD versions generally are. The suggestion has come up multiple times that when a release of either project happens, there should be some attempt to synchronize it with some release of the other. For instance, GCC 5.1 should work with binutils 2.X, and vice versa. But, I imagine that the users that would benefit from that synchronization are few, and priority of the synchronization task is rather low. In truth, I doubt that there is anyone both able and willing to do it. But, I'm sure you could try.