Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:04:57 -0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why lang/gcc9 depends native-binutils ? References: <6B21B9C0-62D5-4ED7-94EE-7715B002F160.ref@yahoo.com> <6B21B9C0-62D5-4ED7-94EE-7715B002F160@yahoo.com> <202007220723.06M7N3qm051026@kx.truefc.org> <E43D802B-016C-40E3-97FB-D6E31FB8800E@yahoo.com>
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> The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools. The main ones are: > * ld - the GNU linker. > * as - the GNU assembler. > Most of these programs use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do > low-level manipulation. Many of them also use the opcodes library to assemble > and disassemble machine instructions. > This port may be used as a replacement for the system binutils and support > features from the latest versions of GCC. > For cross-compilation, see the devel/cross-binutils port. > WWW: https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ > Mark Millard This prompted me to run "svn up" on FreeBSD ports tree. But I found no devel/cross-binutils, you had my hopes up. There is a cross/cross-binutils in (NetBSD) pkgsrc. DESCR shows The cross-binutils pkg is used only by the other `cross' pkgs. The binutils provides various binary manipulation utilities as well as the GNU linker. (The assembler is bundled with each individual cross pkg.) Tom
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