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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!muir.math.niu.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!corn.cso.niu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.accessone.com!not-for-mail From: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: GNU GCC 2.7.2 and Libg++ 2.71 Binary Availability Date: 16 Apr 1996 19:52:13 -0700 Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4l1mct$3bq@austin.polstra.com> References: <3171065C.167EB0E7@mindspring.com> <4ku53n$4hl@zeus.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: austin.polstra.com In article <4ku53n$4hl@zeus.co.uk>, Damian Reeves <damian@zeus.co.uk> wrote: > I've built a 2.7.2 of GCC a couple of days ago from the source > distribution. Apart from a few problems in upgrading my binutils > distribution part way through installing the new GCC (talk about picking > yourself up with your bootstraps!), it all runs perfectly. Compilation of > the GNU binutils package involves manually altering some of the autoconf > scripts which don't support FreeBSD directly, but nothing too painful. All I can say is, you must not have tested the binutils very much. The binutils-2.6 linker, in particular, does _not_ support FreeBSD. It does not even contain any code to support FreeBSD's shared libraries. Furthermore, the code in binutils for checking the magic numbers of object files and libraries is wrong for FreeBSD. Did you even try using the linker, or are you just talking about the assembler? -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth