On 19/04/2010 14:35, Jack Howarth wrote: > The annoucement should probably note that targets which lack > objdump currently can't build plugins.
Hey, and non-ELF targets also probably can't, I think. In the absence of a sudden miraculous flood of volunteers, however, it's just going to be up to you and me to fix our favourite platforms. > I've had about as much > luck getting the patch to fix this... > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-04/msg00610.html > > ...reviewed Wait, which patch? > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:42:47 -0400 although, to be fair, that's a revision of the one you posted on > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:28:19 -0400 So that was right between the release candidate (06/04) and the final release itself (14/04). You can't really hope to get a patch in at that stage, it's just not practical (and come on, you have to accept that goes doubly so for a patch that you had to revise three times in the course of 24 hours to get it right; if that's not the definition of "risky", what is?); we could carry on improving the compiler for ever and never release a new version, but somewhere you've just got to draw a line and ship something sooner or later. That's why it's not just a single release, it's a branch, and that's why there will be a 4.5.1 and that's how we should go about fixing these problems. It's a straightforward-enough release procedure, and I hate it as much as anyone when I miss a deadline and have to stand there on shore with the barrier down watching the boat pull away, but you gotta accept your limitations as a single finite human being and we can't always expect everyone to wait for us minority platforms to catch up. cheers, DaveK
