Re: [Etherboot-developers] GAS 2.95 for compiling etherboot 4.7.24

[Doug A. <amb...@wh...>]

Ken Yap writes:
| >Where can I download an upgrade for gas 2.95 alone?  I would assume you
| >should also update ld, but do you have to upgrade the entire binutils?
| >The GNU site (& mirrors) only distribute the full-blown binutils packages,
| >and it is not clear which binutils version contains gas 2.95 (binutils-2.9.1
| >?).
| 
| If you are using Linux, then rpm -qlp binutils-blah should show you the
| files inside a RPM package, rpm -qip will show you the build notes. dpkg
| should have a similar option. And FreeBSD will have their own scheme for
| sure. Here's a tip. If you don't want to install the whole RPM, you

Yes, FreeBSD is different.  Gas and friends are all part of the base OS.  
We have "ports" which goes and fetching things like EtherBoot applies any 
patches, checks dependancies and then builds it.  Currently the binutils 
that is part of FreeBSD supports everything that EtherBoot needs.  However, 
in the past this was not true so in the "port" it fetched a version of
the binutils and built it.  Then used that to build.  It was a bit
messy but worked.  Now we don't have to do that.  Now the "port"
just fetches the tar-ball and then builds it since all the patches 
are now part of EtherBoot.

Doug A.