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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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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 t=
o ask=20
> >> you before I start to update src/contrib/binutils. I've read the READM=
E's=20
> >> you've placed there, but 2 questions remain:
> [..]
> > This sounds intriguing.... what version of binutils are you updating to=
?
>=20
> 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 ;-=
)
>=20
> /Jens
>=20

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).

--=20
Coleman Kane

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