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Re: binutils-2.12 installs old standards.info
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: binutils-2.12 installs old standards.info |
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Tue, 09 Apr 2002 12:25:11 -0400 |
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Nick Clifton <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The only other GNU project that I know of, besides autoconf, that installs
>> standards.info is gdb.
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>> 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.
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>> So, yes, it does appear that binutils is the odd one out.
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> But it does not cause any harm, does it ?
It does, as this thread shows: you run the risk of installing
out-of-date documentation.
> Someone, somewhere, might actually be using it.
You could add a note explaining where to find the up-to-date copy.
paul