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Re: binutils 2.20 gone missing?
- From: Sebastian Unger <sebunger44 at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Sherrill <Joel dot Sherrill at oarcorp dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:43:49 +1300
- Subject: Re: binutils 2.20 gone missing?
- References: <rnsa72xel03f7mtshpsrj3jc.1358448115206@email.android.com>
Hi Joel,
that was 2.20.1a. The two are now identical in the archive, so 2.20.1a
replaced 2.20.1 completely. But there's no trace of 2.20.
Cheers,
Seb
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Joel Sherrill
<Joel.Sherrill@oarcorp.com> wrote:
> Wasn't 2.20.1 just to correct a packaging issue? Or am I remembering another .1?
>
> --joel
>
> Sebastian Unger <sebunger44@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Nick & Clifton,
>
> I'm trying to reproduce a toolchain from source to the point of being
> able to produce binary identical output from an tag of our sources.
> The toolchain used to use 2.20, so that's what I was going for. I
> wanted to know why 2.20 had been removed. I.e. was it an accident or
> was there some serious flaw with it and it was recalled. In that
> latter case I need to think about whether we really DO want to produce
> binary identical output or rather get the benefit of not having the
> flaw. (whatever that might be).
>
> An alternative explanation could be that you guys never released a
> 2.20 in which case I have to start researching more where we got it
> from.
>
> Cheers,
> Seb
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:52 AM, nick clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Seb,
>>
>>
>>> I'm trying to rebuild an older tool-chain of mine which was using
>>> binutils 2.20. I was surprised that that source tarball is gone from
>>> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/.
>>
>>
>> I can see a binutils-2.20.1.tar.bz2 file there. Is that not what you want ?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Nick
>>