From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 7 21:11:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3525316A4DD; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:11:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9492043D45; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:11:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k67LB3Bo022530; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:11:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Mikhail Teterin Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:08:42 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200607010009.09231@aldan> <20060705171517.H18236@fledge.watson.org> <200607071555.00993.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <200607071555.00993.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-u" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607071708.43790.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:11:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1589/Fri Jul 7 10:37:51 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson , Joerg Wunsch Subject: Re: weird limitation on the system's binutils X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:11:29 -0000 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