From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 13 19:26:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19813 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:26:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19802 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:26:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA03012; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:23:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803140323.TAA03012@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John Birrell cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: binutils bloat In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:11:49 +1100." <199803140311.OAA16205@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:23:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Are people going to object if we keep _all_ the binutils source in > src/contrib/binutils so that we can define a few things in /etc/make.conf > and get cross tools out of a `make world'? > > I've had a play with this and I've found it is annoying to have to > go back and figure out which sources you have to add to your local > cvs tree to get this to work. Are the cross tools only useful for targetting FreeBSD systems? Can you poke it so that it produces more than one set of cross tools in a given world build? (does binutils support multitargetting? I seem to recall something that implied it was going to way-back-when.) I could see the sense in putting bits in for likely targets (sparc, alpha, ppc, maybe a few others), but dinosaurs like the Vax, m88k, amd29k etc. could probably be ignored. OTOH, what is the actual footprint we're talking about here? Disk is cheap. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message