Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:45:42 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Michael D. Harnois" <mharnois@cpinternet.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com>, Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD. Org" <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>, vova@sw.ru Subject: Re: ports/34908: libpng port makes bad dynamic library on -CURRENT Message-ID: <20020221134542.B23386@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <1014327548.19351.0.camel@mharnois.mdharnois.net>; from mharnois@cpinternet.com on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:39:08PM -0600 References: <3C6D49E0.3000506@gte.com> <20020221000531.A57633@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020221020341.C13952@dragon.nuxi.com> <1014298402.526.33.camel@mharnois.mdharnois.net> <3C754AAA.9117A19@mindspring.com> <1014327548.19351.0.camel@mharnois.mdharnois.net>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:39:08PM -0600, Michael D. Harnois wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:29, Terry Lambert wrote: > > "Michael D. Harnois" wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 04:03, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:05:31AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Maybe this can now be committed? > > > > > > > > NOT until I have sufficient feedback from the FSF Binutils developers. > > > > > > OK, I'm confused. binutils has been broken for three weeks. We have a > > > patch that we know fixes, at the very least, one of the known problems. > > > However, it can't be committed without feedback from the developers. > > > > > > So having binutils broken indefinitely is better than applying a patch > > > that *might* have to be backed out or altered later? > > > > I believe the intent is to ensure that the patches make it > > back into the FSF distributed code, so that in the future, > > there is less maintenance required for FreeBSD platforms. > > This is all wonderful. > > But then it seems to me that the entire new binutils should have been > backed out until it worked. Just like XFree-4.2.0 was backed out. It works in general for 'make world' and is suffient for FreeBSD developent -- the purpose of 5-CURRENT. It is also allowing us to find bugs that would otherwise go unfixed in Binutils 2.12.0 release. Or would you perfer we stick to 2.11.x forever -- BTW that would not give us support for IA-64 or x86-64. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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