request for newer binutils (2.21)

[Rainer Müller]

On 2011-07-10 13:05 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Can you elaborate? Are these other bugs already filed in the issue tracker?
> 
> I was pointed to this report
>     https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29104
> A pretty serious problem. One cannot compile gcc or migw gcc or
> anything else at all.
> 
> I would love to submit the problem to Apple, but as someone else
> pointed out: it is more productive to write to /dev/null than losing
> time filing bug reports to Apple. I've been waiting for them to
> resolve at least three serious bugs forever.

Actually this is a bug in llvm-gcc:

  http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=9571

I guess Apple just wouldn't care about bootstrapping gcc. But we could
use clang instead to bootstrap gcc on systems with Xcode 4.0 or newer.

Rainer