Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 16:29:05 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU binutils port Message-ID: <199604062329.QAA26137@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 06 Apr 1996 14:26:01 EST
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: Out of curiosity, why is that (both of thats that is... ;-) Because binutils doesn't support FreeBSD's shared libraries. Also, gcc is bundled with FreeBSD, so there is no need to have it as a port. Actually, binutils compiles great on FreeBSD if you are using it as a cross compiler to another, supported platform. :-(. All of this stems from the fact that ld in FreeBSD is a binutils 1.x era ld and the needed functionality would be, ahhh, non-trivial to bring forward into the 2.x line. There is some noise about ELF fixing all of this, but I'm not sure how much of that is GEE WIZZ stuff, and how much is production quality hardened code. With ELF, it would be very easy to use the latest binutils 2.1. In fact, there is a ELF link kit for people that are running -current that want to play around with this stuff, but memory escapes me at the moment... Warner
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