From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 20:10:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA4B1065726 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:10:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B4718FC18 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iafi7 with SMTP id i7so2291709iaf.13 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.41.69 with SMTP id n5mr4823973ibe.92.1323287280368; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:48:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mikmeyer-vm-fedora (dhcp-173-37-11-193.cisco.com. [173.37.11.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cz1sm10030864ibb.11.2011.12.07.11.47.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:47:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:47:56 -0800 From: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111207114756.48295690@mikmeyer-vm-fedora> In-Reply-To: References: <4EDEB600.9000102@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EDF4703.1050705@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4EDF5253.5060201@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.7; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 64bit build errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:10:21 -0000 On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:17:57 +0000 Tom Evans wrote: > The way I understand it is that they use compiler/assembler features > that did not exist in the version of binutils that is in base. Which begs the question - why isn't the new version of the tools (provided by ports) listed in BUILDDEPENDS in the port, then?