Re: latest binutils cygnus CVS 991025

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:26:51AM -0400, Jay Carlson wrote:

> >  - Symbol versioning is broken in the CVS version.  There is no fix yet
> for
> >    this problem.
> >  - The CVS gas version has a few problems with weak symbols, aliases and
> >    other special cases.  These usually don't show up.  Anyway, the
> patchkit
> >    on oss.sgi.com has all these fixes which haven't made their way into
> >    CVS.
> >
> > I've spent a tremendous amount of time into tracking down a large number
> of
> > other bugs in binutils; I was able to rebuild entire RH 6.0 with that
> > linker.
> 
> This is the 2.8.1+mips patchkit?

No, I did this on CVS snapshot 19990815.  You can get a tarball of the
resulting work from oss.sgi.com:/pub/linux/mips/src/mips64/.  There is
also a patch against a newer CVS snapshot.

  Ralf