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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:04:59 +0200
From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: New binutils import
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:45:51AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:33:22AM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:23:31PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > I have disconnected (i.e., disabled) `gdb` from 'make world' due to the
> > > impending binutils 2.15 import.
> > 
> > Is there any plan to configure the new binutils with --enable-64-bit-bfd so
> > that we can do 64->32 bit buildworlds ?
> > 
> : RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/i386/bfd.h,v
> : ----------------------------
> : revision 1.22
> : date: 2004/04/18 16:09:33;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
> : Revert rev 1.21 which configured with --enable-64-bit-bfd.
> : GDB 5.2 can't handle a 64-bit BFD on a 32-bit host.
> : We can revisit configuring with --enable-64-bit-bfd when we get a modern GDB.
> 
> So (I think) this will happen not earlier than GDB 6 import.
> David will correct me if I'm wrong.

Oops, I should have tried to search in commit messages...

Anyway, it's good news to see that this is being worked upon. Compiling
on VIA C3s is not fun :)

-- 
Francois Tigeot