This is the mail archive of the
binutils@sourceware.org
mailing list for the binutils project.
Re: [PATCH 4/N] The big bump
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> I have never ever gotten a full src tree to cleanly build with
> --enable-maintainer-mode, and IIRC not even without. I've always just
> worked on the git binutils-gdb mirror. The rest of the tree has IMHO
> lacked lots of love at least on the build system side. If you tell me
> that it is used actively, and they are generally willing to see updated
> build machinery (and there is somebody to review patches to this end,
> timely, too), then I would look into this task. But last time I looked
> I didn't think a drift apart would make things any worse; for example,
> Autoconf versions used were quite inconsistent already.
Well, the winsup/ directory is pretty heavily used, winsup == cygwin +
mingw! I can help with the testing if you can help with the patching; winsup
depends on newlib, so I can test those together for you. I think Joseph's
cut-down list looks about right for the rest.
cheers,
DaveK