On Fri, January 27, 2012 14:10, Vincent Snijders wrote: > Op 27 januari 2012 14:00 heeft Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> > het volgende geschreven: >> One can try to cut corners, but that will only end up having to install >> the >> release anyway at the first hickup. > > I'd expect the utils in fpcbuild/trunk to be able to build fpc/trunk > better than the release ones, otherwise they should not be committed > to fpcbuild/trunk.
I believe that the original discussion was about bootstrapping. Binutils committed to trunk may not be tested completely for all scenarios (similarly to everything else within trunk). New binutils may e.g. be necessary for some new compiler feature (e.g. for assembling for a new CPU generation not supported by the previous release if the trunk compiler contains new support for this new CPU generation), but the released binutils should be those guaranteed to compile trunk. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
