Subject: Re: ofwboot.xcf options?
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/06/2000 11:49:30
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

> > > I'm not sure if 1.4.3 will ship with it. 1.5 certainly will.
> 
> It won't build automatically (or at all?) on 1.4.3, if I've
> understood correctly.  So if we ship it with that release, the
> person installing the release on ftp.netbsd.org needs to copy
> ofwboot.xcf from somewhere else.  A shame really, we should be
> able to recreate the release from its own bits, but if that's the
> only way to provide it, so be it.

The thing is that we (I) had to add xcoff support to binutils to get
ofwboot.xcf to boot. If that change to libbfd is fine, then we could
back-port it.

Take care,

Bill