Re: [MiNT] binutils-2.13.2.1-2.m68kmint.rpm

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:02 -0400, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:46 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:00 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > Can anyone verify that the package above is working from the SpareMiNT
> > > homepage and it's giving me this error...
> > > 
> > > unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/addr2line: cpio: read
> > > failed - Read fault
> > 
> > Mmm, this appears to be something a little bit fishy with the EtherNEC
> > operating under FreeMiNT 1.15.12. As when I copy the RPM onto the hard
> > disk it works fine.
> > 
> > > Is there any central location to where the patches/spec files are kept
> > > for the SpareMiNT packages. I'd like to help out updating and including
> > > new RPMs.
> > 
> > I've found the SRPMS, so I'll use those as a basis for updated RPMs.
> > 
> > Frank - should I just ship new RPMS/SRPMS to you for upload ?
> 
> Alan,
> 
> Maybe I missed something, but who are you and what are you up to with
> the binutils rpm's?  We'd all like to know.. VM?  are you changing the
> binary format at all?

I'm a developer Mark. 

binutils contains the assembler and linker to compile your own programs.

Alan.