From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 24 02:03:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12445 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 02:03:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12374; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 02:02:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27740; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 02:02:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd027719; Wed Jun 24 02:02:35 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA23275; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 02:02:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806240902.CAA23275@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: I want my old binutils back! To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:02:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806231034.DAA14337@hub.freebsd.org> from "sos@FreeBSD.ORG" at Jun 23, 98 03:34:47 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > So my question is: does anyone plan to migrate FreeBSD's binutils > > to ELF or was part the motivation to switch to ELF the ability to > > use the original GNU binutils? > > Welcome to a GNUinfected world :) [ ... ] > So, we really have no choice as to stick with the new binutils, as > sad as it might be. Unless someone comes up with an alternative > preferably under a BSD licence, THAT would move things around > quite alot.... TenDRA. The missing pieces are linker sets and the FreeBSD pieces that should really be written in assembly, but try to pretend that they don't have to be by using inlines to make the source code non-portable for no good reason. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message