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

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> 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..

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 ;)


.mrg.