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"Michael D. Harnois" wrote:
> > 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.

Feel free to tilt at your windmills, all you want; I'm
personally busy with other windmills; I was just pointing
out what I thought was the rationale.

FWIW: it *does* work on Intel, it's just Alpha that's in
the dumps.  The currently accepted fix is to use the older
code until all the problems are out of there.

-- Tery

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