Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 15:11:26 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@hub.freebsd.org, ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports with asm files Message-ID: <XFMail.980904151126.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199809040551.PAA04860@cimlogic.com.au>
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On 04-Sep-98 John Birrell wrote: > The alpha port will never be done until things like this are addressed. > If people are going to the trouble of addressing file formats (aout vs elf), > it's not such a big ask for them to address the architecture issues too. > To update ports, we're supposed to contact the maintainer. That is what > I was doing. > > [ People should remember that 3.0 is not just i386 now ] Yeah, maybe you're right, but I think it is a big ask for a port maintainer (not author) to write Alpha code.. Changing the asm to support elf is a PITA but its not hard, whereas recoding x86 assembly into alpha code would suck. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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