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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: binutils-2.7 on FreeBSD 2.1.5
Date: 20 Sep 1996 01:41:04 +0100
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Doug Burks (dbx@atmos.washington.edu) wrote:
: I successfully installed GCC-2.7.2, but when I tried to compile a few
: C++ functions, the assembler complained about a ".weak" directive.
[.....]

Search for 2.7.2 on this news group.  Someone (John D ?) posted
a few patches for FreeBSD to get rid of this .weak problem recently.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....