From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 3 01:01:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08452 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA08446 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA07838; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:00:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:00:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Birrell cc: wwoods@cybcon.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler..... In-Reply-To: <199809030149.LAA00739@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, John Birrell wrote: > William Woods wrote: > > I remember a while back some disscusseion about going to gcc 2.8 or pgcc as the > > compiler for 3.0. Has any desicions been made on this ? > > No compiler change for 3.0. > No binutils upgrade for 3.0. > One step at a time. > Not much time left. I have a bad feeling about binutils. The binutils-2.8.1 ld can't even link some of the shared libs in one of my projects - it spits out bogus dynamic relocations. The latest binutils worked fine. I have done a test import of 2.9.1 locally and have all the necessary patches ready-to-go if we get any noticable problems in ports. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message