On 7 Jul 2021, Nick Clifton told this: > Hi Nick, > >> Ping? > > Oops.
I sent a bunch of pings out at the same time, to a bunch of different projects. You are the only person to respond, so thank you! >>> PR libctf/27482 >>> * libtool.m4 (LT_PATH_NM): Try BSDization flags with a user-provided > > Changes to libtool need to be posted to the libtool project: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ I considered this, but there is *serious* divergence between the libtool.m4 in our tree and upstream. Fixing this divergence looks to be a fairly major project in and of itself :( the last real sync looked like being all the way back in 2008. > They have mailing lists for bug reports and patch submissions. > > Once the patch has been accepted there it can be backported to the gcc and > gdb/binutils repositories... AIUI, libtool has no maintainer currently, and the divergence is such that the patch might need a near-complete rewrite anyway :( (there were changes to this function upstream in 2012 and 2013, long after our last sync.) (However, I'm going to try in any case. I may have found a sucker, er, I mean coworker willing to take this on.)
