3.2 && 3.3 && 3.4 REGRESSION: PR 9479

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Wed Jan 29 11:38:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:43:41AM +0100, Gabriel Dos_Reis wrote:
> | On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:12:22AM +0100, Gabriel Dos_Reis wrote:
> | > 
> | > I uploaded 3.2.2 pre-release tarballs on the FTP server as
> | > 
> | >     ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gnu/snapshots/gcc-*3.2.2-20030128.*
> | > 
> | > Please donwload and test them.  Report problems to me and fill GNATS
> | > PRs. 
> | 
> | Hi
> | 
> | We've discovered a release critical bug. Gcc does not correctly detect the
> | latest FSF release of binutils-2.13.2.1 which is quite an embarrasment.
> | 
> | The GNATS PR is 9479
> 
> I would like to have a binutils expert review the proposed patch in 
> RP 9479.

The patch is correct, I even tested it on a bunch of ld --version strings
ld used to print.
Just note that while major.minor.patch.subpatch should be parsed into
non-empty ld_vers, version with 5 numbers separated by dots
should not (that's hjl's numbering and say 2.12.90.0.1 was still broken).

	Jakub



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