From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 26 00:58:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22712 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22707 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA05136; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:58:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:58:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Alex cc: current Subject: Re: GNU Binutils? (Was: re: gcc 2.8) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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