From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 3 22:47:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02984 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:47:04 -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 WAA02977; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:46:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA04890; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:59:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809040559.PAA04890@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Ports with asm files In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Connor at "Sep 4, 98 03:11:26 pm" To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:59:14 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG, 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 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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. I'm not asking for that. I ask people to consider structuring the port so that it can select the files to compile based on the machine architecture. If asm code for a particular architecture is not available (though it often is now that there is Linux/Alpha), the port should use generic C. -- 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