X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f In-Reply-To: <200704192227.49540.juan.guerrero@gmx.de> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update of Binutils 2.17 uploaded To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0.2 September 26, 2006 Message-ID: From: Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:41:15 -0600 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on SV-GW1/Seagate Internet(Release 7.0.1 HF29|March 07, 2006) at 04/19/2007 01:41:20 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Proofpoint-FWRule: outbound2 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=4.65.5502:2.3.11,1.2.37,4.0.164 definitions=2007-04-19_04:2007-04-19,2007-04-19,2007-04-19 signatures=0 Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote on 04/19/2007 02:27:49 PM: # When binary distributions (aka NNNNNNb.zip) are produced it should be paid # attention that a possible generated dir file by the build proccess # should *not* # be included in the zip archive. Nowadays GNU Makefiles usualy generate # one dir file during installation proccess if they can not find one. This # implies that when the package is installed the djgpp dir file may be replaced # by this useless one. Even worse if an dir file entry appears in the manifest # file for that binary archive. This will remove the dir file from the /info # directory and the average user will no longer be able to read info docs. # This happened to me today when I deinstalled the old bnu217b.zip to reinstall # the new one. It took me some time to understand why info stopped to work # as it should and what had happened with my dir file. Yes, I've fixed that in my new packages - that should be fixed in the new binutils. (That was one of those "administrative details" that I mentioned :) When I was first packaging I did not fully understand how the manifests were produced. Now I have a script which does most of the grunt work for me. Once I get doschk integrated into it I will post it here. # Last but not least, is there any particular reason why # /current/v2gnu/bnu217b.zip # has been updated but not /beta/v2gnu/bnu217b.zip? Were there not both packages then? That indicates that I missed something. I readily believe that since I did pieces of that update on both sides of delorie.com being down, so I may have failed to do something that I thought I'd already done... I'll double-check that and resend as appropriate.