Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:11:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: jb@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils Makefile.inc0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980512090841.2204A-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199805050856.SAA21832@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > Actually I made some headway with building alpha tools on i386 current by > > tweaking the bfd.h which came out of configure. When I get back from my > > trip, I will have another look at it. > > I thought there were compile issues about not having 64 bit variables. > I'd be happy if I was wrong 'cause my alphas are a bit slow. > > > > > While you are in this area, how about importing binutils 2.9.x? It fixes > > a bunch of ELF linking problems for i386 at least and probably others. > > Umm, that needs to be referred to sos, jdp and peter. I don't want to > destabilize their work, though I might have in this case. I just wanted > to get this stuff into the tree to (a) stop cvs from breaking it on > me; and (b) stop Bruce from breaking it on me. 8-) I will look into that soon now that I'm back from CGDC. I hacked 2.8.1.0.23 into my tree locally a few weeks ago and it wasn't too hard. I hope to make some progress on my alpha port of the kernel this week too. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039
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