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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--=-1BrZ7b4nS65Vt7Cadw7l Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=-1BrZ7b4nS65Vt7Cadw7l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkhqR8MACgkQcMSxQcXat5cjUACeLqG2WJwmAMWFGqTpg4UF1x7S Gi4AoISd1EVOSWQK2UXzaLaIwmUhZmFR =exgI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1BrZ7b4nS65Vt7Cadw7l--
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