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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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