[Bug 234750] Review Request: avr-binutils - Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at avr

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Summary: Review Request: avr-binutils - Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at avr


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234750





------- Additional Comments From trond.danielsen at fedoraproject.org  2007-04-07 03:26 EST -------
(In reply to comment #21)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > I know, but as long as almost the whole world does it like this I'm 
> > not planning on changing this.
> Well, ... who is this whole world you are referring to?

The whole world is everybody else who distributes compilers for the AVR; the
biggest one being WinAVR, but also every one *nix distribution that I know of.

> Any GNU toolchain developer will tell you that using an architecture as target
> is not a clever decision.

Silly suggestion: Could we compile avr-binutils with the correct target, and
then add additional symlinks with the names that most people would expect? That
way we gradually educate people while remaining backward compatible with
existing project.

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