From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 21 14: 0:54 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 7CF8F37B404 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1LM04a44667; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:00:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202212200.g1LM04a44667@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: ports/34908: libpng port makes bad dynamic library on -CURRENT Reply-To: "David O'Brien" 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: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Michael D. Harnois" , 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 13:59:10 -0800 On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:29:46AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, there was a discussion at BSDCon as to whether or > not to drop the a.out support in order to decrease the patch > size necessary to make the FSF distributed code do what FreeBSD That is true for GCC. For contrib/binutils, the code only supports FreeBSD/ELF. The old a.out as & ld are elsewhere in the tree -- and have not been updated for years. > needed it to do (personally, I would prefer that the a.out > code generation be integrated back into the FSF code base but > this is unlikely for FSF political reasons with regard to the I have tried many times... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message