From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 14:35:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06451 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06384 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA02712; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:39:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809222139.HAA02712@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: No libbfd on -current? In-Reply-To: <19980922182908.A2506@cons.org> from Martin Cracauer at "Sep 22, 98 06:29:08 pm" To: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:39:56 +1000 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Cracauer wrote: > It seems no libbfd gets installed on an ELF FreeBSD system. > > Is this just a matter of available time on the developer's side or is > there a fundamental problem that makes this undesireable? It hasn't been installed because there aren't any applications in the main tree that require it other than when binutils is built. I would hesitate before choosing to install it for use with things outside the main tree because I don't see a clean way to share the header files from which it was built. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message