From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 12 23:04:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA02590 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 23:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA02585 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 23:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA06372 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 08:04:37 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id IAA08555 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 13 May 1997 08:04:14 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id HAA02593; Tue, 13 May 1997 07:30:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970513073040.45030@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 07:30:40 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU utilities are old. References: <3377EE72.47F@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67 In-Reply-To: <3377EE72.47F@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Mon, May 12, 1997 at 09:30:50PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3283 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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