Re: About update binutils (2.24 to 2.25)

[Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>]

On 01/08/2015 09:55 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
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>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Khem,
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>> I'm trying to upgrade binutils from 2.24 to 2.25, there is
>> a patch binutils/libtool-2.4-update.patch which has 19317
>> lines, do you have any ideas on how did we make it in the past,
>> please ?
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> what conflicts are you seeing ? if they are just in configure files then you
> need to autoteconf them manually one by one using the appropriate version of auototools as recommended
> for bintutils 2.25 usually gcc/binutils don’t use latest auto tools.

Conflicts in ld/configure, I fixed it manually, I was curious how we made this
patch, and now you have explained, thanks.

// Robert

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> but if they are reporting changes in other files then its a different problem needs to be looked at.
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>> $ diffstat ./binutils/libtool-2.4-update.patch
>> bfd/configure        | 1314 +++++++++++++++++-----
>> bfd/configure.in     |    2
>> binutils/configure   | 1312 +++++++++++++++++-----
>> configure            |    2
>> gas/configure        | 1312 +++++++++++++++++-----
>> gprof/configure      | 1317 +++++++++++++++++-----
>> ld/configure         | 1693 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>> libtool.m4           | 1094 +++++++++++++------
>> ltmain.sh            | 2925 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>> ltoptions.m4         |    2
>> ltversion.m4         |   12
>> lt~obsolete.m4       |    2
>> opcodes/configure    | 1314 +++++++++++++++++-----
>> opcodes/configure.in |    2
>> 14 files changed, 8937 insertions(+), 3366 deletions(-)
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>> --
>> Thanks
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>> Robert
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