[Bug 460600] Review Request: msp430-binutils - Cross compiling binutils targeted at the msp430

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--- Comment #8 from Robert Spanton <rspanton at zepler.net>  2009-01-13 22:41:49 EDT ---
Hello.

Thanks for the analysis Jan :-)

I've bumped up to binutils 2.19 and I believe I've fixed all the issues that
Jan mentioned.

Spec: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-binutils.spec
SRPM:
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-binutils-2.19-1.fc10.src.rpm

The MAKEINFO variable was set because the configure script in binutils 2.18 had
a bug that meant makeinfo detection would fail.  Setting MAKEINFO bypassed this
test.  Binutils 2.19 has fixed this problem.

I think that I should explain where the patches come from slightly more.  The
mspgcc project has maintained these patches against binutils for at least two
years now.  They add support for a variety of MSP430 variants.

For 2.19, these patches have been merged into one.  These patches are available
in the mspgcc CVS:
http://mspgcc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mspgcc/packaging/patches/

I'm not completely sure why these are not in binutils itself.  However, I think
that keeping this patch out would just irritate users.  I will post to the
mspgcc mailing list about this and try to get that patch into binutils itself. 
Not now though, it's very late/early here.

Cheers,

Rob

p.s. Apologies if I sound irritated in this post.  Xorg hung on me and the
Firefox session saving thing doesn't save form element contents... so I ended
up writing this twice!

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