Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 06:00:10 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), wes@intele.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU binutils and FreeBSD 2.1.0 Message-ID: <199601231300.GAA25304@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199601230809.JAA15849@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <199601210031.RAA18804@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199601230809.JAA15849@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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> > > I tried to build binutils 2.6 today, but I can't get 'ld' to configure > > > correctly for 'i386-unknown-freebsd2.1.0'. Has anyone else built > > > binutils for 2.1? Any hints or helps? > > > > The ld in FreeBSD (and NetBSD) is a heavily hacked old version of GNU > > ld. The current GNU binutils would need *serious* hacking to get the > > same functionality, so the shlib stuff the *BSDs are not supported (and > > probably will never be) in any official version of GNU's binutils. > > would'nt it be possible to try to fold all these "hacks" back into the FSF > distribution ? - this would make it much easier to keep up to date with the > binutils or build cross-compile environments I doubt that the FSF would take some of them since they've diverged so much, but if you have the time to do the work you're more than willing to give it a shot. Nate
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