[Freemint-list] m68k-aout support in binutils

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 00:14 +0200, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 September 2016 23:58:54 Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Seen there:
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2016-09/msg00184.html
> > 
> > It seems that all m68k-aout targets are going to become obsolete in
> > next
> > binutils release. So will be our m68k-atari-mint target :-(
> WTF. Maybe a comment  should help to prevent this from becoming true.
> OTOH,  
> currently only config.bfd seems to be affected, and the removed
> triplets could 
> be patched in again by the mint-specific patch that is needed anyway.

I think that's the real issue.

Our mint patch has never made it into the binutils package and
therefore they can't see targets using it.

If we managed to submit our patch and get it upstream then maybe the
maintainers would have more visibility.

Alan.