Hi,
I would have to agree with David. The release version of binutils is
horrendously out of date. The most recent (non-release) version can be found
at ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils/binutils-2.9.5.0.24.tar.gz.
I've made a transition to the most recent set of GNU development tools for
my own (Linux) distro, and all I can say is that it may take a bit of fiddling to
find the "best" binutils that will work with gcc 2.95.2. But, it's definitely
worth the work, since gcc's new x86 backend is just incredible, and produces
wonderfully fast code. In the end, I simply snagged the most recent version
of binutils from the URL above, and it seemed to work ok. You *can expect*
problems and challenges integrating 2.95.2 into FreeBSD -- it's like a whole
new compiler. And it *will* cause new compile errors that were not flagged
before. That's just the nature of the new gcc. In the end, it will be worth
it.
I would suggest mailing the author of binutils, H.J. Lu, and seeing if he can
give any pointers on which version to use. His email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who
would like to ask him? :) Probably better to ask him first rather than
bugging RMS.
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Robbins
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:20:29AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:00:07PM +0100, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> > in this case it's not M13 but the latest CVS tree ... But i'll see if
> > recompiling the beast for a few days on end eventually will get it back in
> > shape again. if not ... i'll probably come back and complain ;-)
>
> Don't complain to us -- our hands are tied.
>
> Complain to the EGCS Project [for producing code the release version of
> binutils cannot handle], the GNU Binutils people [for not releasing
> anything in 1.5 years], and the Mozilla people for not working around the
> bugs in the latest released version of the compiler tools.
>
> --
> -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
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