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Adding target OS 'RDOS' to binutils

Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Wed Nov 30 19:42:00 GMT 2005 
"Leif Ekblad" <leif@rdos.net> writes:

> Dave:
> > 1)  patches must be generated by diff (generally "diff -pu" is
> > preferred) so
> > they can be automatically applied with patch.
> 
> OK, I found "diff" for Windows, so this is no problem. Do you include the
> text generated by diff in an email or send it as a file?

Either way is fine.

> > 3)  patches must be accompanied by a changelog entry in standard gnu
> > changelog
> > format.
> 
> Anybody know how to generate this on a Windows-machine??
> Can I write this in a editor?
> Is there a web-page describing the standard format?

You can write it in an editor.  Look at the file ChangeLog to see the
format.  It is described here:
    http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html#Change-Logs

Thanks.

Ian
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