weird limitation on the system's binutils

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 10 17:03:29 UTC 2006


On Saturday 08 July 2006 02:12, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> What problems, btw.?  Only curious.

All the different projects that use libbfd tend to include their own private 
version which aren't all compatible with each other (binutils has its own 
copy, gdb has another, etc.)

-- 
John Baldwin


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