the newer binutils

2000-05-04 Thread Donn Miller
I noticed that a newer version of binutils is in the source code tree (2.91). Is there anything that needs to be set during the make world to make 2.91 the default binutils? - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: the newer binutils

2000-05-04 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 03:18:38PM -0400, Donn Miller wrote: I noticed that a newer version of binutils is in the source code tree (2.91). Is there anything that needs to be set during the make world to make 2.91 the default binutils? Uh... that would be 2.9.1 which is the version that is

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:36:12AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: One possible thing to try would be to download the latest binutils from the GNU ftp site or mirrors, compile, and install them in /usr/local. Then, set /usr/local/bin as the first entry in your PATH environment variable to

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread Peter Wemm
Pascal Hofstee wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:36:12AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: One possible thing to try would be to download the latest binutils from the GNU ftp site or mirrors, compile, and install them in /usr/local. Then, set /usr/local/bin as the first entry in your PATH

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread Chris Piazza
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:29:07AM +0100, Pascal Hofstee wrote: Hi, I have been having some problems gettign Mozilla to start up under FreeBSD-4.0-CURRENT .. and the comments given in the Bugzilla forum all seem to blaim my problems to having a gcc 2.9.5.2 compiler and an (old) 2.9.1

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I have been having some problems gettign Mozilla to start up under FreeBSD-4.0-CURRENT .. and the comments given in the Bugzilla forum all seem to blaim my problems to having a gcc 2.9.5.2 compiler and an (old) 2.9.1 assembler. That's odd, I have M13 working just great here under -current

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 05:46:12AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I have been having some problems gettign Mozilla to start up under FreeBSD-4.0-CURRENT .. and the comments given in the Bugzilla forum all seem to blaim my problems to having a gcc 2.9.5.2 compiler and an (old) 2.9.1

RE: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread Stephane Potvin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Donn Miller Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 3:36 AM To: Pascal Hofstee Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ? Pascal Hofstee wrote: They all suggest updating my

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:36:12AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: One possible thing to try would be to download the latest binutils from the GNU ftp site or mirrors, If you did that you would find the the latest GNU release is 2.9.1. Guess what -- Binutils is getting little maintaince. They are

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:30:19AM -0500, Stephane Potvin wrote: I've been using the latest binutils from cygnus for the last month without ... But as I take it (only my 0.02$) it won't happen until they release an official version and it doesn't seems to be anywhere soon. It doesn't seem it

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ?

2000-02-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:00:07PM +0100, Pascal Hofstee wrote: in this case it's not M13 but the latest CVS tree ... But i'll see if recompiling the beast for a few days on end eventually will get it back in shape again. if not ... i'll probably come back and complain ;-) Don't complain to

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ? Ask H.J. Lu

2000-02-12 Thread Daniel Robbins
Hi, I would have to agree with David. The release version of binutils is horrendously out of date. The most recent (non-release) version can be found at ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils/binutils-2.9.5.0.24.tar.gz. I've made a transition to the most recent set of GNU

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ? Ask H.J. Lu

2000-02-12 Thread Donn Miller
Daniel Robbins wrote: I've made a transition to the most recent set of GNU development tools for my own (Linux) distro, and all I can say is that it may take a bit of fiddling to find the "best" binutils that will work with gcc 2.95.2. But, it's definitely worth the work, since gcc's new

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ? Ask H.J. Lu

2000-02-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: Why don't we do it? Let's find out from the maintainer of binutils which version he recommends, and then integrate it into the next version of -current. We can find the bugs and fix them on our own. Personally, I'd like to find

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ? Ask H.J. Lu

2000-02-12 Thread Daniel Robbins
Hiya, OK, I'll email him and ask him to post suggestions to this list, and forward the message to me. However, I am a FreeBSD newbie, recently arriving from the Linux camp, so any specific problems/questions that need to be asked should be asked by whoever is having the problem, ( i.e. I am

Re: newer binutils for CURRENT ? Ask H.J. Lu

2000-02-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Daniel Robbins wrote: URL above, and it seemed to work ok. You *can expect* problems and challenges integrating 2.95.2 into FreeBSD -- it's like a whole new compiler. And it *will* cause new compile errors that were not flagged before. That's just the nature of the