From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 3 22:42:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02651 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02645; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA08972; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:11:27 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199809040551.PAA04860@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 15:11:26 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: John Birrell Subject: Re: Ports with asm files Cc: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@hub.freebsd.org, ports@hub.freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-Sep-98 John Birrell wrote: > The alpha port will never be done until things like this are addressed. > If people are going to the trouble of addressing file formats (aout vs elf), > it's not such a big ask for them to address the architecture issues too. > To update ports, we're supposed to contact the maintainer. That is what > I was doing. > > [ People should remember that 3.0 is not just i386 now ] Yeah, maybe you're right, but I think it is a big ask for a port maintainer (not author) to write Alpha code.. Changing the asm to support elf is a PITA but its not hard, whereas recoding x86 assembly into alpha code would suck. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message