Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:06:29 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: alexandr@louie.udel.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port of Binutils 2.6? Message-ID: <199607062306.XAA03458@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9607061547.aa12275@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu> (message from Jerry Alexandratos on Sat, 06 Jul 1996 11:47:08 -0400)
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[re binutils-2.6] > If not, has anyone had any experience with this? How well does it > compile out of the box? Where should I look to patch it? Etc... I imagine it would take quite a bit of work - as far as I know, none of the gcc/ld/binutils family have a FreeBSD target, which is one of the reasons why they don't get updated very often. As for gcc-2.7.2p, I don't have it (no free space at the moment), but I would only use it for testing and things that weren't critically important. I certainly wouldn't compile my kernel with it! :-) If you really do want to do this, the best place to start is probably by comparing the /usr/src version with the GNU distribution it was based on. As this work has already been done (although not yet committed to -current) and gcc-2.7.3 and supporting cast are almost certainly going to be in 2.2, I'd recommend using the time to do something more immediately fruitful... -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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