Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/bfd

[Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 4:46 AM matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>
> > I did similar verification for gdb/dist/bfd also. I'd like to
> > sync {binutils,gdb}/dist/bfd, but there are huge diffs between
> > them. Most of them seem like binutils or gdb specific fixes,
> > but I may overlook something...
> >
> > It must be nice if we could unify two libbfd's. The upstream
> > uses the same repository for binutils and gdb. However, the
> > release branches for them are quite different, unfortunately.
>
> we used to do this a long time and and it's really difficult
> to not break one toolchain component while updating another
> and we ditched the merged 'src' tree like upstream had.
>
> (long ago, GCC was in the same 'src' as well, but i think
> it's no longer the same.  our merged tree had GCC too...)
>
> this is a nice idea, but practically we already stopped
> using it..

Ah, thanks for kind explanation. And,

> IFF we switched to importing gdb/binutils from the non
> release branch at the same point, we could probaly do this
> as long as we understand we're getting devel code, not
> release code, which is probably a bad idea...would like to
> have at least one of them as a release ;)

well, it should be painful ether way ;)

OK, I wil eventually send PRs to upstream to merge our
local changes eventually, at least until kamil@ gets some
time for NetBSD again :)

Thanks,
rin