From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 10 00:11:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA12332 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:11:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA12327 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@portal.ca) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA26367; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:11:31 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:11:31 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: James Raynard cc: "Brian W. Buchanan" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Assembler - new version? In-Reply-To: <19971110000319.31789@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, James Raynard wrote: > > Is it possible we could see a new version of the GNU assembler for -STABLE > > anytime soon? > > Not unless someone finds the time to port it. :-( > ... > (Perhaps NetBSD have a more recent version we could "borrow"?) Right. The current gas doesn't support i386 BSD a.out shared libs. We've been bemoaning this in the NetBSD world for some time now (having a somewhat greater need for cross-compiling than the FreeBSD folks), and there's a distinct possibility that something's going to be done about it between NetBSD 1.3 and NetBSD 1.4. If any FreeBSD folks want to pitch in, drop me a note any time after December 1st. (I'm far to busy trying to make a 1.3 release for the Alpha until then.) cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.