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

[Robert Yang]

On 01/08/2015 10:10 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
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>> 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:
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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.
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>> Conflicts in ld/configure, I fixed it manually, I was curious how we made this
>> patch, and now you have explained, thanks.
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> 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

Thanks, got it.

// Robert

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