Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:59:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Michael D. Harnois" <mharnois@cpinternet.com>, Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>, "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com>, Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD. Org" <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>, vova@sw.ru Subject: Re: ports/34908: libpng port makes bad dynamic library on -CURRENT Message-ID: <20020221135910.G23386@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3C754AAA.9117A19@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:29:46AM -0800 References: <3C6D49E0.3000506@gte.com> <20020221000531.A57633@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020221020341.C13952@dragon.nuxi.com> <1014298402.526.33.camel@mharnois.mdharnois.net> <3C754AAA.9117A19@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:29:46AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, there was a discussion at BSDCon as to whether or > not to drop the a.out support in order to decrease the patch > size necessary to make the FSF distributed code do what FreeBSD That is true for GCC. For contrib/binutils, the code only supports FreeBSD/ELF. The old a.out as & ld are elsewhere in the tree -- and have not been updated for years. > needed it to do (personally, I would prefer that the a.out > code generation be integrated back into the FSF code base but > this is unlikely for FSF political reasons with regard to the I have tried many times... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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