Re: Bug#519006: breaks dump builds, too

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 09.06.2010 12:02, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote:
> Matthias Klose<doko@debian.org>  writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> > On 08.06.2010 20:02, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> > > This prevents dump from building on mips/mipsel, which means the version
> > > of dump in testing is now months out of date.
> > >
> > > Is there an estimate for when this bug will be fixed?
> >
> > this is up to the debian-mips maintainers to answer.
> >
> > is there different behaviour when all objects involved in the link are
> > rebuilt with binutils from experimental?
>
> hmm... Why are you talking about binutils ? From what I remember, the
> patch fixing the issue is in gcc 4.5

reference?

> and someone said it won't be easy to backport it.

so what do you propose?

 - drop mips as a release architecture?
 - do you volunteer to make gcc-4.5 ready for inclusion
   in mips and fix any resulting RC-critical issue?

Matthias