From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 14 03:13:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA20178 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 03:13:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA20155; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 03:12:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00597; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:12:45 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199803141112.MAA00597@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: binutils bloat In-Reply-To: <199803141047.VAA18108@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Mar 14, 98 09:47:07 pm" To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:12:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to John Birrell who wrote: > > The build directory structure has nothing to do with where the binaries > are installed. I'll send you (and jdp and peter) details of an alternative > makefile design that treats the architecture specific makefiles as > additive rather than exclusive [Sorry to sound like Terry 8-) ] so > that more than one architecture is built. Hmm, lets see that first before I comment on that... > Also bear in mind that the only tools you are installing in > /usr/libexec/elf are ar, as, ld and ranlib. The other tools are > being installed in /usr/bin. NOPE!, the rest of binutils goes there too, John P. has found new problems with binutils "aout unwilllingnes". We cannot use binutils for our aout format. If we are going to have crosstarget development tools, it should be completely optional, preferably a port. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message