-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24.10.2013 1:14, Adrien Nader wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013, Adrien Nader wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013, LRN wrote: >>> binutils and findutils were updated mostly because apt-get doesn't want >>> to download source tarballs for old versions anymore. This is annoying, >>> and i should probably switch to http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/ for >>> findutils tarballs (and no, i haven't heard about it until today, when i >>> googled for findutils-4.5.12), but there aren't that many places where >>> you can get fresh binutils tarballs that do not change every night (or >>> every week). If you know such a place - please do tell me. >> >> What about http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ ? > > By the way, the binutils tarbals which are number with 5 numbers: > a.b.c.d.e MUST NOT be used for mingw*. > > These are changes over the corresponding binutils release (i.e. version > a.b.c) for Linux. They're (currently) maintained by a RedHat employee > and the focus is really only Linux: they break other targets. > AFAIR, i've had to use newer, unstable binutils because the version that i did have did not work correctly on W32.
Also, the version of binutils used now seems to be working well enough (if it or the binaries it produces have any flaws, they are unobvious). I hope that it would be possible for report any issues to binutils, should any arise, and have them fixed. - -- O< ascii ribbon - stop html email! - www.asciiribbon.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSaMFVAAoJEOs4Jb6SI2Cwae4H/j6Z5BzFYxBUFj1RdTuhKZGT n7gx1q7ootAGopHDHKTB7ll1qYx/vapsF0VxmaDYFd5xzDwTKqwVUvKXspOX4fU4 tRjyO1Bc5tPzbLe1eYDeICBD5zyqqGoNpn1yOBmQ7wUz9sjYBoejD0EyRowmkjrX bLH0SDgXfrlu5ILKfJuFyPVin0Xnq8M9BC7GRt/EAvZVQ6s/m64TM+T8wdfRo9R/ v6Uxg4gpyg7nymK2JZ437GUEpFCfZfE8y5SJLK0S+vg4aK6ypvtWbUx7bSDnpdEe 0nol6OuF2R7/PJSEsImC4hE6mwiniknaJRYDiwLYiCwg5Mk+RDjz7qtPy/ih6s8= =xIhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
