linux kernel binutils vs FSF binutils

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

On Friday 10 of October 2014, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 05:01:02PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > From Fedora binutils.spec:
> > 
> > # Note - the Linux Kernel binutils releases are too unstable and contain
> > too # many controversial patches so we stick with the official FSF
> > version # instead.
> > 
> > 
> > Do we want to follow?
> 
> How many patches does Fedora include against GNU binutils releases?

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/binutils.git/plain/binutils.spec

> How many of them are included in HJL binutils?

No idea.

> > Our current binutils hang (assembler hangs) when building gcc 4.9.1 for
> > example and inddeed - there was no release for long time.
> 
> Have you tried with GNU binutils release?

I didn't try but FC has 4.9.1 and it builds ada (hjl binutils assembler 
"hangs" on ada stuff waiting for some stdin data that it never gets or 
something like that).

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