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Re: second release candidate for 2.10
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:00:33PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >I've gotten a concerned email from someone active in GCC development.
> >GCC 2.96/3.0 will ship with a newer config.guess than 2.10. FreeBSD 3+
> >is now identified as "i386-unknown-freebsd4.0" where Binutils 2.10 will
> >use "i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.0". He felt that there could be some
> >problems in using a cross-toolchain or what not.
> >
> >Are you open to a config.guess change for 2.10 release that would make
> >the two match?
>
> Yes, if you are convinced that this would be a real problem (and won't
> introduce any other incompatibilities, say with gcc 2.95). I don't know
> enough about the issues to say.
Me neither. I was hoping someone else here would.
> But I would rather leave this to binutils 2.10.1. GCC 3.0 isn't likely
> to be released anytime soon.
I guess this would be the best path.
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