Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:50:03 GMT From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/143699: [patch] extend brandelf Message-ID: <201002091750.o19Ho3MV012829@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/143699; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> To: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> Subject: Re: bin/143699: [patch] extend brandelf Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:42:44 +0100 (CET) thanks for the reply. indeed the libelf project has a much better implementation of brandelf than the one in the freebsd base dir. hopefully at some point the libelf project's work will be included into the base dir and replace most of the gnu (or even pre-gnu) elf binaries/libraries. however until then i don't see why existing code - although inferior to the libelf project's code - shouldn't be enhanced here and there. also it's a lot easier to find a committer to add a few changes to an app which obviously won't break stuff than to find somebody to replace an existing binary with a whole new one. so i completely agree with you. i'm looking forward to seeing libelf's work in the base dir, but until then time (or better yet code) doesn't have to stand still. ;) cheers. alex
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