Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

        Maybe it would be OK to jut documen the limitations - people can
        still use them for compiling kernels...

                David/absolute

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > The best the a.out ports will do is static binaries. Do you document that?
> > If I were to grab these packages, I'd expect shared libraries to work,
> > which they can't.
> 
> Oh, as Bill Sommerfeld pointed out, since not all of our ports do
> bitfields the same, you can't mix binaries from an opposite-endian
> machine. i.e. cross-compilied .o's will only work with the native .o's if
> they came from an equal-endian host.
> 
> > I'd suggest the best thing to do is back these packages out.
> 
> :-)
> 
> (Note, I'd love to help this be done right too.)
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
>