Re: Fixes to build arc-elf32 binutils

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Peter,

: You might be interested to know that I'm trying to patch in a
: reasonable amount of changes that have been made to the ARC port of
: binutils (based on  2.9.x). This all happened before I started GNU
: maintenence here, so I'm still picking up the contributing process
: and internals of binutils - hence the minor patch (below) to just
: ensure the current port builds.

In which case do you have a copyright assignment on file with the FSF
for binutils patches ?  I accepted your gas tidy up patch because it
was sufficiently small and obvious that it did not really matter, but
if you are going to be submitting bigger patches then we will
definitely need a copyright assignment.

: I'm trying to ensure that everything is consistent in the source and 
: documentation. Also, to get Gas to build I had to make minor additions to
: non-arc specific files (e.g gas/struc-symbol.h). Should I check/test the
: patched version until I'm happy'ish, then make a patch and submit for
: validation?

That would be best.  Also if you are able to break your patch up into
smaller, self contained components that would also help a lot.

Would you be interested in becoming the official ARC maintainer for
binutils ?  That way you could approve your ARC specific patches and
save some time :-)  Note - this process is not automatic, I would need
to see a few major patches from you first, just to make sure that you
are familiar with the binutils way of doing things, but other than
that, if you are interested in being a long term maintainer, please
let me know.

Cheers
        Nick