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Date:      Thu, 7 Feb 2002 02:30:21 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        obrien@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How about gcj? (Re: Not committing WARNS settings...)
Message-ID:  <20020207023021.A51865@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200202061952.g16JqhQ08723@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:52:40PM -0500
References:  <20020206110027.C98054@dragon.nuxi.com> <200202061952.g16JqhQ08723@aldan.algebra.com>

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hi, there!

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:52:40PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> But  alright,  let's   say  --  ports.  gcj  and   gcjh  themselves  are
> installed by  the several lang/gcc*  ports, but they are  not functional
> (libgcj/libjava are not ported). As a ports committer I might try to fix
> that, but  I think, those ports  should complement the base  system, and
> that the  base system  should provide  the bits  it already  uses itself
> (like  libbfd and  libiberty) to  the programmers,  that use  FreeBSD --
> install them into /usr/lib and link them _dynamicly_ into the tools.

dynamically linked libiberty would be a nightmare.
libbfd anf libiberty do not have version numbers, are not maintained
(i.e. there is no official releases). every project includes its own
libiberty and imho an attempt to find least common denominator will fail

/fjoe

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