On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, matthew green wrote:

:    Log Message:
:    Disable these in the case of USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN (the new versions are
:    moving into the gnu/usr.bin/binutils directory to reflect GNU's
:    encapsulation of these packages).
:
: that's not really right.  the GNU encapsulation is that the binutils
: programs besides ld & gas are in the "binutils" directory and that
: ld and gas have their own directories.
:
: sure, bintuils ld & gas are all released as a single package, but
: that isn't how they're built or kept normally.

I put them together that way for several reasons; this was the main one (so
if binutils gets imported anew, you know one of the main places to go fix
up).

There are other reasons that deal more with conflicts with existing files in
the old gas/ld structures, and this was a useful compromise.  It's not
detrimental.

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