Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:24:32 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: Paul Becke <pbecke@javagear.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arm toolchain Message-ID: <20010120232432.B38818@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <3A686EC2.207AD917@javagear.com>; from pbecke@javagear.com on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:43:46AM -0600 References: <3A64D209.F5397350@javagear.com> <20010118192710.A95607@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A67BBB1.5B322CAE@javagear.com> <20010119045632.A34811@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A686EC2.207AD917@javagear.com>
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:43:46AM -0600, Paul Becke scribbled: | 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. I really do not see what is wrong with arm-aout-*, That is what the Ports system is for--laziness. One day, someone may use it. David is right. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arm" in the body of the message
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