[OE-core] About update binutils (2.24 to 2.25)

[Khem Raj]

> On Jan 7, 2015, at 6:05 PM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:
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> 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 at windriver.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Khem,
>>> 
>>> 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 ?
>> 
>> 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.

some portions are written and others are generated. since we do not autoreconf binutils, we do have to regenerate configure scripts
so its a special case. Usually that would not be needed for autotooled recipes

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> // 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(-)
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Robert
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