From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 26 15:42:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE6215873 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 15:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA56770; Wed, 26 May 1999 23:42:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:42:25 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, hackers@freebsd.org, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: getopt.c in gnu/*/* In-Reply-To: <199905261342.JAA28971@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 May 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > It would be better to create src/gnu/lib/libgnugetopt/Makefile and point > > ".PATH:" to the newest src file we have in the tree. If some package > > gets updated and there is a newer GNUgetopt(), then we change the > > ".PATH:". JDP suggested this is a cleaner way than extracting part of a > > GNU package, and I have to agree with him. (I am considering something > > simular with libiberty and libbfd) > > Cygnus cautions against merging libiberty/libbfd from binutils with GDB. > > Never made sense to me tho... :-) I wish they would just split out the pieces and release them separately. For what its worth, we are doing exactly this (using bfd from binutils with gdb). It took some minor hacking to account for the fact the gdb expects to be using approximately bfd 2.9.2. I expect to remove them after I import binutils 2.9.2 which should happen not too long after its released, depending on workload. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message