Re: binutils development (was Re: Problems building binutils-000220 snapshot)

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>]

   Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:24:49 +1100 (EST)
   From: greyham@research.canon.com.au (Graham Stoney)

   H . J . Lu writes:
   > Just a note. You may have better luck with my linux binutils. Unless
   > you want to work on binutils, I don't see any reason to use binutils
   > in CVS on Linux. It doesn't have all the new features and bug fixes
   > which are in my version. My binutils is pretty much in sync with
   > sourceware.

   Is there any chance that you and the sourceware guys could get together and
   work on a single, unified binutils (which just happens to support Linux)?.

   The current situation seems to involve duplication of effort and causes
   confusion. It sounds a little like the split in gcc/egcs development, which
   thankfully is now resolved. Could we do the same for binutils?

The split is not that large, as far as I know.  I only have a couple
of patches from H.J. in my mail file.  In the message you quote,
H.J. says that his binutils was pretty much in sync with sourceware.

Mainly it's a problem of lack of time on the part of the binutils
maintainers.  Because of this, there is not much active binutils
development going on.  We all want a unified binutils.  There's no
question about that.

Ian