Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:05:41 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@web.de> Cc: FreeBSD-Current-List <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating src/contrib/binutils Message-ID: <1214924741.1802.42.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <486A3C55.6030801@web.de> References: <4869E272.1060606@web.de> <1214914307.1802.33.camel@localhost> <486A3C55.6030801@web.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 14:16 +0000, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Coleman Kane wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 07:53 +0000, Jens Rehsack wrote: > >> Hi David, > >> > >> because you are the maintainer of src/contrib/binutils, I first want to ask > >> you before I start to update src/contrib/binutils. I've read the README's > >> you've placed there, but 2 questions remain: > [..] > > This sounds intriguing.... what version of binutils are you updating to? > > The most recent is 2.18, in src/ is 2.12 - so I would try to update to > the most recent. This is nothing which will finished tomorrow or in a > week - it will take some time. > To be true, the reason why I wanna do this, is using SSE3 instructions ;-) > > /Jens > Sounds nice. Are there any considerations needed to be made concerning GPLv3 licensing of newer binutils? I remember this came up before concerning importing future revisions of GCC 4.2.x into the tree (right now we've got one of the last GPL2 releases that were made). -- Coleman Kane [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkhqR8MACgkQcMSxQcXat5cjUACeLqG2WJwmAMWFGqTpg4UF1x7S Gi4AoISd1EVOSWQK2UXzaLaIwmUhZmFR =exgI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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