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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:21:23 +0200
From:      "Johan Bucht" <jbucht@gmail.com>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org, "Jens Rehsack" <rehsack@web.de>,  FreeBSD-Current-List <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Updating src/contrib/binutils
Message-ID:  <947010c30807020821s5f62f61bh2c2221d27282b5c0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080701152932.GA27253@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <4869E272.1060606@web.de> <20080701152932.GA27253@dragon.NUXI.org>

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On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:53:22AM +0000, Jens Rehsack wrote:
>> because you are the maintainer of src/contrib/binutils, I first want to
>> ask you before I start to update src/contrib/binutils.
>
> Hi Jens,
> As part of the MIPS effort, I will be updating Binutils to 2.17, the last
> GPLv2 release.  Please wait for that effort.
>

How tightly coupled are binutils and gcc? Is it be possible to replace
some/all of the binutil binaries with bsd licensed counter-parts (like
the ElfToolChain) without breaking something?

/Johan



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