Request for Review: binutils-mipsel

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 11:35 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:55 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 08:27 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > Yes, it's binutils for little-endian MIPS processors. This is the first
> > > package in the mipsel toolchain.
> > > 
> > > It Requires binutils since it doesn't contain any translations (which
> > > would conflict with newer versions of binutils).
> > 
> > It's worse. For cross toolchains, you must --disable-nls or require
> > exactly the same version of nls-files for the native and the cross
> > toolchain.
> > 
> > I strongly recommend disabling nls to avoid getting swamped
> > dependencies.
> 
> Will I still need to Require binutils if I use --disable-nls?

It depends. As far as nls is concerned, no. 

But there exist other files being shared between binutils and
cross-binutils, e.g. the info files. Unlike the actual tools, these
don't get canonicalized for cross-toolchains and therefore conflict with
the native info-files. (The binutils' manpages are canonicalized and do
not conflict).

BTW: I'd recommend not to use "mipssel-linux" as target tuple, but to
use a fully expanded target tuple, matching the target OS you actually
are addressing, e.g. mipssel-redhat-linux.

Ralf