Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 13:36:29 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@wasteland.calbbs.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Assembler - new version? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971109133542.3963E-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971109105549.5797A-100000@thought.calbbs.com>
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On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > Is it possible we could see a new version of the GNU assembler for -STABLE > anytime soon? The version currently present in the tree seems to date > back to 1992 or 1993, and lacks some features of more recent versions. > I've tried grabbing a newer version of gas from the GNU binutils-2.8, but > the configure script doesn't recognize FreeBSD, and I'm not knowledgeable > (or patient) enough to hack it into working. I think the newer GNU binutils have dropped support for the a.out format, which FreeBSD uses, so until -current switches over to ELF, you're out of luck (I think). - alex
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