Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:58:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GNU Binutils? (Was: re: gcc 2.8) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808260857070.17263-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808251653050.825-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Alex wrote: > Speaking of upgrading the compiler, what are the chances of upgrading the > binutils to 2.9.1 (at least for the ELF bits) in -current? > > I mention this, because as I was trying to compile koffice, I could > reliably segfault as (2.8.1 from -current), which would in turn nicely > knonk out egcs (and the rest of the build process). Using the version of > gas that came with binutils 2.9.1 (configured for an > i586-unknown-freebsdelf system) seems to have solved my problems. > > Also, the building of gas from the -current sources seems to ignore CFLAGS > (and CXXFLAGS), but not CC/CXX. Should I open a pr for these and other > minor stuff like this? I would also like to see 2.9.1 in our tree but I have no time to work on it. There are a few useful alpha fixes in 2.9.1. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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