Re: Unofficial Red Hat Port

Brendan Conoboy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.texas-instruments.msp430.gcc.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/13/2013 12:27 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> On 09/13/2013 11:37 AM, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
>> If we've got to that point then I may be able to assist in making that
>> happen, but there were some concerns that those using the old packages
>> may not be ready to move to the new ones right away - so it would be
>> nice to hear some thoughts on that. Should we do it now, or wait a
>> little while?
>
> Wait a little while.  The base port is checked in, but a number of
> optimizations are still pending.

Optimizations are now in.  Thanks Nick & DJ!

>> The gcc package obviously depends on the binutils package, so another
>> issue was not wanting to upgrade the binutils package until a new gcc
>> was ready since its very likely that the old gcc wouldn't work with the
>> new binutils,
>
> Binutils is completely upstream at this point.  If it does something
> wrong we'd like to hear about it!

Turns out there was one more binutils patch outstanding, but likewise it 
is now checked in.

-- 
Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / [email protected]

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