2010-04-30Tagging release 1.7.0 1.7
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:26:52 +0200] rev 1945
Tagging release 1.7.0

2010-04-301.7: create maintenance branch, update version to 1.7.0 1.7 crosstool-ng-1.7.0
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:26:52 +0200] rev 1944
1.7: create maintenance branch, update version to 1.7.0

2010-04-30scripts/mk-release: pretty-up the per-author stats
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:25:45 +0200] rev 1943
scripts/mk-release: pretty-up the per-author stats

Reverse sort first by number of changesets, then sort alphabetically
on the author's names.

2010-04-30docs: update the known issues
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:33:07 +0200] rev 1942
docs: update the known issues

2010-04-30samples: update
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:28:14 +0200] rev 1941
samples: update

2010-04-29debug/gdb: install tic in the buildtools directory
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:14:31 +0200] rev 1940
debug/gdb: install tic in the buildtools directory

'tic' is a build tool, its place is in the buildtools
directory, not in the toolchain's bin directory.

2010-04-29debug/gdb: be less verbose during the ncurses build
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:12:27 +0200] rev 1939
debug/gdb: be less verbose during the ncurses build

2010-04-29scripts: don't set LD_PRELOAD with static companion libraries
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:25:17 +0200] rev 1938
scripts: don't set LD_PRELOAD with static companion libraries

When cpmpanion libraries are built statically, it is useless to set
LD_PRELOAD. Worse, it might break the build in some corner cases.

2010-04-28docs: update the section about the wrapper
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:24:01 +0200] rev 1937
docs: update the section about the wrapper

The wrapper is no longer needed when building
non-shared companion libraries. Document that.

2010-04-25arch/sh: fix type in variant handling
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> [Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:27:23 +0200] rev 1936
arch/sh: fix type in variant handling