Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:58:39 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Michael D. Harnois" <mharnois@cpinternet.com> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, 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: <3C756D8F.646CD494@mindspring.com> 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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"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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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