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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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