Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 21:05:34 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: binutils bloat Message-ID: <199803140505.VAA03336@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 16:04:35 %2B1100." <199803140504.QAA16504@cimlogic.com.au>
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> > Erk. That's kinda ugly; this isn't something that could be trivially > > automated I suppose. > > It was born ugly (GPL). Automated? I'm not sure. Somewhere you have > to store the config and it's not just a matter of running `configure' ... or more to the point the configuration isn't a uniform item; it varies with target. So unless you have a list of known targets on hand, you can't do it "automatically". IMHO that's a pretty strong selection criteria for what to include from binutils; if there's a canned gas config for a target, then the files that target requires should be included. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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