Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:08:27 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird limitation on the system's binutils Message-ID: <200607011508.27920@aldan> In-Reply-To: <20060701115508.GC8447@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200607010009.09231@aldan> <20060701115508.GC8447@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Saturday 01 July 2006 07:55, Peter Jeremy wrote: = IMHO, the FreeBSD base system should provide tools for doing native = development - anything beyond that belongs in ports. Given that = binutils supports quite an extensive range of targets (of the order of = 100), building them all is impractical and a waste of resources for = virtually everyone who uses FreeBSD. I would agree with this myself, except that anything in the ports would have to _duplicate_ or replace the system one. All of it -- not even just bfd -- because it is all linked statically. The overhead of even a 100 extra "bfd vectors" for all is much smaller, than the the full duplication overhead for those, who want to disassemble an "obscure" object format -- or even one from another FreeBSD platform. We support multiple human languages, each one needed by relatively few people. > My reading of contrib/binutils suggests that files for targets not > related to FreeBSD are in the exclude/delete list and aren't imported > into the FreeBSD repository. They are all here, although there are a lot fewer than 100 of them: echo /usr/src/contrib/binutils/bfd/*-* | wc -w 74 > libbdf.a is built by /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/Makefile. > That should be a fairly simple change to arrange for it to build and > install the .so as well. Installing both libbfd-s certainly would be a good start... As things stand, every port needing it -- including various different compilers -- builds it own version. This is, largely, explained by the GNU's stupidity of bundling a different version with each tool (gdb, compiler), but the bundled bfds are not THAT incompatible, and the system-installed version can include the compatible superset... -mi
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