From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 26 08:44:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA03057 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 08:44:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA03046 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 08:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA16006; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:44:14 -0500 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma016002; Sat Oct 26 10:44:07 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA29541; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:44:10 -0500 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA13418; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:44:10 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610261544.KAA13418@jake.lodgenet.com> To: Michael Smith cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interest in a linux_crossdev port? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 1996 16:38:57 +0930." <199610260708.QAA22439@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 10:44:10 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: >Eric L. Hernes stands accused of saying: >> >> Yea, I've thought about that a lot in the last couple days. How >> do you say ``I want to cop out on this one'' without sounding lazy? ;-) ;-) > >Plead busy 8) Seriously, if you hadn't mentioned your intention to >update the _lib port, I would have gone aheade with the slackware >stuff I had ready. However, you _are_ better positioned than me to do >this, and you probably have more time 8) > _lib was getting so far behind that I was embarassed to have my name on it ;-) There were a couple of things that I could never get to work. Looking back it was all related to static, unbranded elfs. They work now! So I don't mind bringing _lib into the 1990's ;-) Dunno about the time issue, I'm stealing minutes away from other stuff :( >Definitely need a make. I would suggest the whole chain; make, gcc (a.out >and ELF?), gas, bison, flex, all the binutils, all the libraries and headers >(don't forget the kernel headers; everything else ends up including them) >etc. > Ok, It's on the list, mid-to-late next week (maybe sooner, if it rains tommorrow and the pheasants aren't flying ;-) ) >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ >]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ eric.