Robert P. J. DAY says:
apparently, the patchset for gcc 4.2.1 applies properly to the
source for gcc 4.2.2 and gcc 4.2.3. so, if you want, you can simply
add support for those last two just by augmenting menuconfig and
adding a couple symlinks for those two directories. seems like a
cheap way to add a couple new versions.
1 diff -u binutils-2.18-orig/configure binutils-2.18/configure
2 --- binutils-2.18-orig/configure 2007-08-06 16:29:40.000000000 -0400
3 +++ binutils-2.18/configure 2007-09-27 22:41:51.000000000 -0400
4 @@ -6125,10 +6125,10 @@
5 *" texinfo "*) MAKEINFO='$$r/$(BUILD_SUBDIR)/texinfo/makeinfo/makeinfo' ;;
8 - # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or
9 + # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.6 or
10 # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.
11 if ${MAKEINFO} --version \
12 - | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
13 + | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([6-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
16 MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"
17 diff -u binutils-2.18-orig/configure.ac binutils-2.18/configure.ac
18 --- binutils-2.18-orig/configure.ac 2007-08-28 16:24:26.000000000 -0400
19 +++ binutils-2.18/configure.ac 2007-09-27 22:41:00.000000000 -0400
20 @@ -2400,10 +2400,10 @@
21 *" texinfo "*) MAKEINFO='$$r/$(BUILD_SUBDIR)/texinfo/makeinfo/makeinfo' ;;
24 - # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or
25 + # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.6 or
26 # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.
27 if ${MAKEINFO} --version \
28 - | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
29 + | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([6-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
32 MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"