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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:08:42 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: weird limitation on the system's binutils
Message-ID:  <200607071708.43790.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200607071555.00993.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
References:  <200607010009.09231@aldan> <20060705171517.H18236@fledge.watson.org> <200607071555.00993.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Friday 07 July 2006 15:55, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> =D3=C5=D2=C5=C4=C1 05 =CC=C9=D0=C5=CE=D8 2006 12:18, Robert Watson =CE=C1=
=D0=C9=D3=C1=D7:
> > Perhaps the world has changed since that time, but those sound like
> > pretty good reasons to me. =9ASo these are my recollections, but since =
I'm
> > not an expert in our toolchain bits, I could be off in the woods=20
somewhere.
>=20
> Can we, perhaps start small and make the libiberty piece centrally availa=
ble=20
> (and of the most recent version)?
>=20
> There is even a port of (devel/gnulibiberty), which its maintainer (CC-ed=
),=20
> I'm sure, will be glad to see obsoleted...
>=20
> We are currently building it four times:
>=20
> /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libiberty/libiberty.a
> /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/libiberty.a
> /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libiberty/libiberty.a
> /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/libiberty.a
>=20
> And installing none...
>=20
> Halving that, and installing the result to be usable by ports would be a=
=20
> decent improvement, would not it?

Only if it doesn't suffer from all the same problems as libbfd.a.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin



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