Re: Binutils 2.15.97 available

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Mike,

> > it's probably just a matter of i havent been around long enough to understand 
> > exactly how the release process works, but the 2.16.90.0.1 snapshot rolled by 
> > H. J. Lu included the '-linux-gnu*' to '-linux-*' changes while 2.15.97 does 
> > not ...
> >
> > i thought the patch went into both mainline and the 2.16 branch, so what am i 
> > missing ? :/
>
> I don't believe it went in to 2.16.

That's right.

Since this is a potentially controversial patch I thought that it would 
be better to just apply it to the mainline sources and not the 2.16 
branch.  That way if the wider free software community complains about 
the change they will not have any grounds to reject an official binutils 
release, but instead can complain about its presence in the development 
sources.

Cheers
  Nick