Re: New binutils import

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:45:51 +0300
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:33:22AM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:23:31PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > I have disconnected (i.e., disabled) `gdb` from 'make world' due to the
> > impending binutils 2.15 import.
> 
> Is there any plan to configure the new binutils with --enable-64-bit-bfd so
> that we can do 64->32 bit buildworlds ?
> 
: RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/i386/bfd.h,v
: ----------------------------
: revision 1.22
: date: 2004/04/18 16:09:33;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
: Revert rev 1.21 which configured with --enable-64-bit-bfd.
: GDB 5.2 can't handle a 64-bit BFD on a 32-bit host.
: We can revisit configuring with --enable-64-bit-bfd when we get a modern GDB.

So (I think) this will happen not earlier than GDB 6 import.
David will correct me if I'm wrong.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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