From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 14 04:16:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA00649 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA00640; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:16:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA07122; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:14:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803141214.EAA07122@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: binutils bloat In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:41:48 +0100." <199803141141.MAA16622@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:14:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA00642 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > > > If we are going to have crosstarget development tools, it should be > > > completely optional, preferably a port. > > > > Ports are actually a really nasty solution for anything that might > > involve building an eventual release, trust me! Just breaking out the > > SGML stuff for docs was painful enough, and that was exceedingly > > peripheral. > > You mean you would build all the different machine releases on ONE > platform ??? That will be quite a task :) You really do want to put that P6 I just shipped to you to good use. Building releases for everything we have that's releasable is getting pretty boring. By the time we're ready to release for Alpha and Sparc, we're going to *want* a challenge. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message