From owner-cvs-gnu Tue May 12 01:12:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25545 for cvs-gnu-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 01:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-gnu) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25479; Tue, 12 May 1998 01:10:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA04504; Tue, 12 May 1998 09:11:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:11:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Birrell 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 In-Reply-To: <199805050856.SAA21832@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-gnu@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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