From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 14 03:40:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA23962 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 03:40:46 -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 DAA23884; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 03:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11404; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:40:14 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199803141140.MAA11404@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: binutils bloat In-Reply-To: <199803141117.DAA04346@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Mar 14, 98 03:17:47 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:40:14 +0100 (MET) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@cimlogic.com.au, 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 Mike Smith who wrote: > > If we are going to have crosstarget development tools, it should be > > completely optional, preferably a port. > > Uh, this is cross-for-FreeBSD-on-other-architectures. Making this a > port would, to put it succinctly, suck. Bloating every installation with crosstools will suck even more... Make it an option then, that's OFF by default. And wait until we have the ELF stuff completed, this is not going to make it any easier... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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