Re: binutils-2.12 installs old standards.info

[Mike Castle]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 06:07:00PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Also, why does binutils install standards.info anyway?
> 
> Well binutils is a GNU project and it does follow the GNU coding
> standards.

The only other GNU project that I know of, besides autoconf, that installs
standards.info is gdb.

Gcc doesn't.  Bison doesn't.  Glibc doesn't.  Fileutils doesn't.  Sh-utils
doesn't.  Tar doesn't.  And so on and so forth.

So, yes, it does appear that binutils is the odd one out.

mrc
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