On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Nick Clifton <ni...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I would like to update the top level libtool files (libtool.m4, > ltoptions.m4, ltsugar.m4, ltversion.m4 and lt~obsolete.m4) used by > gcc, gdb and binutils. Currently we have version 2.2.7a installed in > the source trees and I would like to switch to the latest official > version: 2.4.6. > > The motivation for doing this is an attempt to reduce the number of > patches being carried round by the Fedora binutils releases. > Currently one of the patches there is to fix a bug in the 2.2.7a > libtool which causes it to select /lib and /usr/lib as the system > library search paths even for 64-bit hosts. Rather than just bring > this patch into the sources however, I thought that it would be better > to upgrade to the latest official libtool release and use that > instead. > > I have successfully run an x86_64 gcc bootstrap, built and tested lots > of different binutils configurations, and built and run an x86_64 gdb. > One thing that worries me though, is why hasn't this been done before? > Ie is there a special reason for staying with the old 2.2.7a libtool ? > If not, then does anyone object to my upgrading the gcc, gdb and > binutils mainline sources ?
AIX is another target that will need to be tested carefully for such a change. Thanks, David
