Subject: Re: compatibility of devel/binutils mentioned in buildlink2.mk
To: Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.okt.drei@onlinehome.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/26/2003 21:02:03
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Klaus Heinz wrote:

: I'm confused by the following comment in devel/binutils/buildlin2.mk:
:
:   # These versions of NetBSD didn't have a toolchain that was capable of
:   # replacing binutils.

This means, in other words:

# These versions of NetBSD didn't have a toolchain that could be used in
# place of modern binutils.

_INCOMPAT_BINUTILS are versions of NetBSD which *will* pull in a dependency
on devel/binutils when its buildlink2.mk is incldued.  Other versions will
use the system-supplied binutils.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>