From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 14 02:48:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA18026 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:48:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au ([203.36.2.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18021 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 02:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.7) id VAA18125; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:50:12 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199803141050.VAA18125@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: binutils bloat In-Reply-To: <7814.889871357@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 14, 98 02:29:17 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:50:12 +1100 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (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 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Oh, I dunno about that... You might find yourself with some powerful > backers on this proposal - the technical elegance of being able to say > "I'd like executables for platform foo please", especially with > FreeBSD planning to go both Alpha and Sparc in the hopefully > not-too-distant future, is still compelling and disk drive prices are > still falling. :) I like the idea of being able to pick up a CD with all the supported tools installed. So if we do this, are you prepared to build all for releases, even though they might not be enabled by default? -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org 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