From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 26 15:13:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00971 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00966 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA04734; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:22:52 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808262222.IAA04734@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: GNU Binutils? (Was: re: gcc 2.8) In-Reply-To: <199808262057.NAA21770@usr02.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 26, 98 08:57:11 pm" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:22:52 +1000 (EST) Cc: garbanzo@hooked.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert 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 think the general consensus would be "yes, you can update "ld" and > friends, if you first make them grok a.out". Umm, we're definitely going to 3.0 with elf. The decision has been made to leave the old aout tools for backward compatibility and *not* to add aout support to binutils. > > 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? If this is a gas build issue for the sources in the tree, it should be PR'd. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message