Subject: Re: more shared lib nastiness
To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@rzpd.de>
From: Per Fogelstrom <pefo@enea.se>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/17/1997 13:08:43
> 
> hasn't Warner Losh said ? ...
> > In message <199703160756.XAA13375@Pescadero.DSG.Stanford.EDU> Jonathan
> > Stone writes: 
> > : Is there a reason nobody from OpenBSD forwarded Per's patch back to
> > : the binutils maintainers?
> > 
> > None I know of.  You'd have to ask Per or Niklas.  Per did the patch,
> > and Niklas seems to be the binutils maintainer.  Likely they didn't
> > have the time to feed the changes back, but that's just a guess.  I
> > know that Per has been insanely busy, and that Niklas is away on
> > holiday (when he isn't insanely busy).
> > 
> i asked niklas some time ago about bringing back all the local OpenBSD
> changes to the binutils maintainers - and he said that he'll do it in
> the next time for the last bunch of things changed in OpenBSD - and
> all is just a matter of missing time - nothing more
> 
> t
> 
> -- 
>   thomas graichen - graichen@rzpd.de graichen@OpenBSD.org graichen@FreeBSD.org
> 
> 

Fact: No it wasn't fed back to Cygnus. Why: ?. Reason: Whatever...

I usually mail Ian changes i do. This time i fixed a "showstopper", putting
what i was currently doing aside. So mailing this fix was, well, not done...

While we're at it you may have seen that i have done a "fix" to take care
of the lib*.so.x selection that is in "elfmipsarc.c" (IMS) that has not
been sent to Cygnus either.

Per