Re: weird limitation on the system's binutils

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:08:42 -0400
On Friday 07 July 2006 15:55, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> середа 05 липень 2006 12:18, Robert Watson написав:
> > Perhaps the world has changed since that time, but those sound like
> > pretty good reasons to me.  So these are my recollections, but since I'm
> > not an expert in our toolchain bits, I could be off in the woods 
somewhere.
> 
> Can we, perhaps start small and make the libiberty piece centrally available 
> (and of the most recent version)?
> 
> There is even a port of (devel/gnulibiberty), which its maintainer (CC-ed), 
> I'm sure, will be glad to see obsoleted...
> 
> We are currently building it four times:
> 
> /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libiberty/libiberty.a
> /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/libiberty.a
> /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libiberty/libiberty.a
> /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/libiberty.a
> 
> And installing none...
> 
> Halving that, and installing the result to be usable by ports would be a 
> decent improvement, would not it?

Only if it doesn't suffer from all the same problems as libbfd.a.

-- 
John Baldwin
Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 19:11:29 UTC

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