Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:43:46 -0600 From: Paul Becke <pbecke@javagear.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arm toolchain Message-ID: <3A686EC2.207AD917@javagear.com> References: <3A64D209.F5397350@javagear.com> <20010118192710.A95607@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A67BBB1.5B322CAE@javagear.com> <20010119045632.A34811@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > 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. True enough, It seems a waste to have to have multiple copies of what is essentially the same program, but such is life. Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arm" in the body of the message
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