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Date:      Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:15:05 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG (Joseph Koshy)
Cc:        asami@hub.freebsd.org, ports@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports with asm files
Message-ID:  <199809040515.PAA04771@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199809040452.VAA25922@hub.freebsd.org> from Joseph Koshy at "Sep 3, 98 09:52:35 pm"

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Joseph Koshy wrote:
> I'm maintaining a couple of ports which use X86 ASM in places for
> speed.  With the transition to ELF, I need to maintain two versions
> of the ASM files on account of the different handling of exported
> symbols (the leading `_' problem :().
> 
> In general, I can see the need for maintaining different versions of
> patch files, PLIST files. etc. for the ELF and a.out ports.
> 
> Is there a recommended way to handle these kinds of ELF/a.out 
> dependencies?

Ahem, all the world's not X86. Do you handle that too?

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John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
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