From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 18:01:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA14504 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA14499 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 18:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ab15575; 7 Jul 96 2:01 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa20524; 7 Jul 96 2:01 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA03458; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:06:29 GMT Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:06:29 GMT Message-Id: <199607062306.XAA03458@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: alexandr@louie.udel.edu CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <9607061547.aa12275@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu> (message from Jerry Alexandratos on Sat, 06 Jul 1996 11:47:08 -0400) Subject: Re: Port of Binutils 2.6? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [re binutils-2.6] > If not, has anyone had any experience with this? How well does it > compile out of the box? Where should I look to patch it? Etc... I imagine it would take quite a bit of work - as far as I know, none of the gcc/ld/binutils family have a FreeBSD target, which is one of the reasons why they don't get updated very often. As for gcc-2.7.2p, I don't have it (no free space at the moment), but I would only use it for testing and things that weren't critically important. I certainly wouldn't compile my kernel with it! :-) If you really do want to do this, the best place to start is probably by comparing the /usr/src version with the GNU distribution it was based on. As this work has already been done (although not yet committed to -current) and gcc-2.7.3 and supporting cast are almost certainly going to be in 2.2, I'd recommend using the time to do something more immediately fruitful... -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/