Re: Does anyone need to delay the 2.47 release ?

Alice Carlotti <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:53:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.binutils
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 04:20:50PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> > Question is whether the build failure addressed by [1] is enough of a
> > reason to delay. Generally generated files shouldn't need re-generation
> > in release trees, and hence the tools to generate such files shouldn's
> > need building in the first place. Yet otoh having such a build failure
> > in a release also isn't very nice.
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> > [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2026-July/150388.html
> 
> Is applying [1] a sufficient solution to this problem or are there other
> build failures as well ?  If just applying [1] solves the problem then
> lets do that right now.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick

That patch LGTM.  I expect it to fully resolve the build problem, but I haven't
verified this.

Alice