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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 07:30:40 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU utilities are old.
Message-ID:  <19970513073040.45030@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3377EE72.47F@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Mon, May 12, 1997 at 09:30:50PM -0700
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970512175524.24093c-100000@haven.uniserve.com> <3377EE72.47F@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>

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According to Pedro F. Giffuni:
> Hmm..are we sending our patches to the FSF?

Not for "as"/"ld" because we're based on binutils too old for them to
support. The only way to get in sync with binutils now would be to switch
to ELF I guess. We have too many changes to support our a.out shared libs.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #9: Thu May  8 20:22:51 CEST 1997



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