From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 8 06:13:08 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 E524516A4DA; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 06:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: from uriah.heep.sax.de (uriah.heep.sax.de [213.240.137.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34A243D4C; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 06:13:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by uriah.heep.sax.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F8284F; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 08:13:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from uriah.heep.sax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (AvMailGate-2.0.2-10) id 28525-77D3CBC1; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:13:05 +0200 Received: from uriah.heep.sax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by uriah.heep.sax.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF11D85C; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 08:13:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from uriah.heep.sax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by uriah.heep.sax.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 08:13:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k686Cx2W028521; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 08:12:59 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 08:12:59 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20060708061259.GD84700@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mail-Followup-To: Joerg Wunsch , John Baldwin , Mikhail Teterin , Robert Watson , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy References: <200607010009.09231@aldan> <20060705171517.H18236@fledge.watson.org> <200607071555.00993.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <200607071708.43790.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607071708.43790.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5E84 F980 C3CA FD4B B584 1070 F48C A81B 69A8 5873 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on uriah.heep.sax.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=6.5 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.2-10; AVE: 6.33.0.19; VDF: 6.33.0.62; host: uriah.heep.sax.de) Cc: Peter Jeremy , Mikhail Teterin , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson Subject: Re: weird limitation on the system's binutils X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:13:09 -0000 As John Baldwin wrote: > > Halving that, and installing the result to be usable by ports > > would be a decent improvement, would not it? > Only if it doesn't suffer from all the same problems as libbfd.a. What problems, btw.? Only curious. Historical note: one of my ports (devel/avarice) needs a libbfd.a, so I once made that port. As libbfd requires a GNU libiberty (it uses internal libiberty functions that are not documented, ick!), I also made that port. I don't mind seeing that one go away though. Neither of these two ports has been anything like a hobby for me. ;-) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)