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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:56:32 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        Paul Becke <pbecke@javagear.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: arm toolchain
Message-ID:  <20010119045632.A34811@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A67BBB1.5B322CAE@javagear.com>; from pbecke@javagear.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:59:45PM -0600
References:  <3A64D209.F5397350@javagear.com> <20010118192710.A95607@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A67BBB1.5B322CAE@javagear.com>

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:59:45PM -0600, Paul Becke wrote:
> > >  ftp://64.24.60.4/pub/arm-binutils.tar.gz
> > >  ftp://64.24.60.4/pub/arm-gcc.tar.gz
> > >  ftp://64.24.60.4/pub/arm-gdb.tar.gz
> >
> > There is already  an ELF arm port in devel/.  i will look at yours in a
> > few weeks and see if there is anything I should combine with the existing
> > one.s
> >
> > > I would be happy to contribute these ports to the general FreeBSD ports
> > > collection.  I also suggest removing the older arm-aout-* ports.  What
> > > is the proceedure for obtaining access to update my own ports on the
> > > FreeBSD site?
> >
> > Why should they be removed???  Maybe someone needs a.out support.
> 
> They can be left, it just seems redundant to have multiple ports, when one
> set could handle aout, elf, netbsd or any other format using linker switches.

Linker switches will not work for the compiler. :-)  Trust me, we do not
want to hacke up GCC to be able to handle multiple back ends.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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