From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 3 22:02:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27361 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27350; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:02:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA04771; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:15:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809040515.PAA04771@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Ports with asm files In-Reply-To: <199809040452.VAA25922@hub.freebsd.org> from Joseph Koshy at "Sep 3, 98 09:52:35 pm" To: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG (Joseph Koshy) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:15:05 +1000 (EST) Cc: asami@hub.freebsd.org, ports@hub.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joseph Koshy wrote: > I'm maintaining a couple of ports which use X86 ASM in places for > speed. With the transition to ELF, I need to maintain two versions > of the ASM files on account of the different handling of exported > symbols (the leading `_' problem :(). > > In general, I can see the need for maintaining different versions of > patch files, PLIST files. etc. for the ELF and a.out ports. > > Is there a recommended way to handle these kinds of ELF/a.out > dependencies? Ahem, all the world's not X86. Do you handle that too? -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message