where are patch files for binutils 2.18 to build RTEMS 4.9.3?

[ralf.corsepius at rtems.org (Ralf Corsepius)]

On 01/29/2010 01:00 AM, Chris Johns wrote:
> mike wrote:
>>
>> Just saw that all the patch for binutils 2.18/rtems 4.9 were removed.
>> Should I use binutils 2.19 and patch for binutil 2.19/rtems 4.10, even
>> though I'm going to build for rtems 4.9.3?
>>
>
>
> Not sure. Ralf will be around soon'ish and he should be able to give you
> an answer.

Well, I don't know why the OP is looking for binutils-2.18.

Our rtems-4.9 toolchains use binutils-2.19 for quite a while, while the 
rtems-4.10 toolchains try to follow upstream releases as close as 
possible (currently binutils-2.20 and likely soon 2.20.1)

My recommendation:
If you really need to build the toolchains yourselves, use the latest 
patches to be found in contrib/crossrpms/patches on the corresponding 
rtems-branch (rtems-4-8-branch, rtems-4-9-branch, HEAD) in CVS.

Normally (I occassionally forget to copy them) they can also be found in
ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/SOURCES/<rtems-version>

They are not part of the tarball, because these patches
a) are GPL'ed
b) occassionally, fairly frequently change

BTW: Our rtems-4.9 binutils currently require use a patch,
i.e. there is no binutils-2.19-rtems4.9*diff, vanilla FSF sources should 
work out of the box.

Ralf