From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 21 14: 0:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67F137B417 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1LM03744659; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202212200.g1LM03744659@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: ports/34908: libpng port makes bad dynamic library on -CURRENT Reply-To: Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/34908; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Terry Lambert To: "Michael D. Harnois" Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Stijn Hoop , "Alexander N. Kabaev" , Bjoern Fischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD. Org" , vova@sw.ru Subject: Re: ports/34908: libpng port makes bad dynamic library on -CURRENT Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:58:39 -0800 "Michael D. Harnois" wrote: > > I believe the intent is to ensure that the patches make it > > back into the FSF distributed code, so that in the future, > > there is less maintenance required for FreeBSD platforms. > > This is all wonderful. > > But then it seems to me that the entire new binutils should have been > backed out until it worked. Just like XFree-4.2.0 was backed out. Feel free to tilt at your windmills, all you want; I'm personally busy with other windmills; I was just pointing out what I thought was the rationale. FWIW: it *does* work on Intel, it's just Alpha that's in the dumps. The currently accepted fix is to use the older code until all the problems are out of there. -- Tery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message