Re: the solicitation of opinions

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 10:30, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:25:07AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > > And maybe, just maybe, I'd vote for a more recent binutils if
> > > H.J. comes out with something... There's been a few things happening
> > > just lately with binutils for SPARC, but I'd wait for a release from
> > > H.J... The cvs sources just branched off a 2.13 branch and the
> > > development trunk is bumped up to 2.14.90 just yesterday...
> > 
> > gcc 3.2.3: looks like a bugfix release (even though none of the bugs
> > seem to be sparc-linux specific). I'll see if we can safely sneak this
> > in.
> 
> Well, certainly I'd suggest NOT using gcc-3_2-branch, but
> gcc-3_2-rhl8-branch, such as current gcc-3.2.3-2.src.rpm.

Definitely. I'm not brave enough to go into unpatched gcc source.
Building gcc-3.2.3-2sparc now.

> > binutils: I dunno. I'm reluctant to go beyond where we are now
> > (binutils-2.13.90.0.20-5) without good reason.
> 
> 2.13.90.0.20 is certainly not that old (over a month, that is).

Any reason we should deviate from that?

~spot
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