"Michael D. Harnois" wrote: > > I believe the intent is to ensure that the patches make it > > back into the FSF distributed code, so that in the future, > > there is less maintenance required for FreeBSD platforms. > > This is all wonderful. > > But then it seems to me that the entire new binutils should have been > backed out until it worked. Just like XFree-4.2.0 was backed out.
Feel free to tilt at your windmills, all you want; I'm personally busy with other windmills; I was just pointing out what I thought was the rationale. FWIW: it *does* work on Intel, it's just Alpha that's in the dumps. The currently accepted fix is to use the older code until all the problems are out of there. -- Tery To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message