From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29971 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2002 16:44:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29959 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 16:44:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 16:44:13 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18K0z0-0001ku-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:44:22 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18Jz70-00023G-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:44:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:44:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: DJ Delorie , klee@apple.com, ac131313@redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions. Message-ID: <20021205164430.GA7865@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , DJ Delorie , klee@apple.com, ac131313@redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20021205163549.GA7320@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00148.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:39:54PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > They're in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/ already. Have been > > > for years. > > > > Let me rephrase that in two parts: > > - keep them updated with the new ones > > - be more enthusiastic about recommending people use them. Most do > > not. > > Too bad special versions are required at all. It's a major PITA to keep > specific versions for various packages It's not that they're special - it's that they're _consistent_ that matters. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer