Re: Stabilization status

[Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>]

Am Mon, 15 Feb 1999 schrieb Gary Thomas:
>On 15-Feb-99 Franz Sirl wrote:
>> Am Mon, 15 Feb 1999 schrieb Jeffrey A Law:
>>>In message <99010521361700.01228@ns1102.munich.netsurf.de>you write:
>>>  > I further investigated this and it seems to be a binutils problem. Michael
>>>  > Meissners recent change to put things into .sbss instead of .sdata triggers
>>>  > a bug in binutils-2.9.1.0.19a (and earlier probably). I built egcs with a
>>>  > current gas snapshot without problems.
>>>  >
>>>  > 
>>>  > I would appreciate if someone could send the corresponding binutils fix to 
>>>  > H.J Lu, so he can include it in binutils-2.9.1.0.20.
>>>It occurs to me that we should probably have an FAQ entry on the need for a
>>>newer assembler on ppc-linux.
>>>
>>>Want to write one up and submit it?
>>>
>>>If you don't know html, then submitting plaintext is fine, it can be html-ized
>>>easily.
>> 
>> Yeah, I can write something up. Would you mind placing a gas-981227-ppc.tar.gz
>> into the infrastructure dir? Then I can hyperlink to it. Later/current snapshots
>> don't check well on the PPC. One, hopefully harmless :-), test will always fail,
>> cause -fdata-sections is not yet implemented in egcs for PPC.
>> 
>> Franz.
>
>Franz,
>
>If you send me the files/patches, I'll make a binutils+gas RPM available until
>there is a more "official" solution.

I would love to, but it's impossible for me to track them down as there is no
anonymous CVS for binutils/gas yet. But I don't see it as a big problem, cause
it only hurts the mainline now and I assume binutils-2.10 will be out before
egcs-1.2. And for people trying the mainline now on PPC the FAQ entry should be
enough for now.

Hmm, this problem might become obsolete quite soon, as H.J. Lu will switch his
linux-binutils to the snapshots during one of the next releases (.21 or .22 I
assume).

Franz.