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Re: CVS commit: basesrc



On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 October 2001 12:08 am, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> > Module Name:        basesrc
> > Committed By:       reinoud
> > Date:               Wed Oct 31 00:08:03 UTC 2001
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >     basesrc: build.sh
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Acorn's MACHINE_ARFCH is now arm, not arm32 ... moving it effectively to
> > ELF (Yay!)
>
> arm ELF isn't ready for prime time at the moment, see the list of outstanding
> issues the Ben posted to port-arm.  Switching -current to it might be ok, but
> when we do fix the outstanding issues you may find that libraries built now
> will not work with libraries built then.
>
> Please reconsider this change.

What He Said.  No port should be using ARM ELF until the three items at
the top of the TODO list have been either completed or agreed to be
unnecessary.

Yes, I know arm26 breaks this -- I don't think I've got enough users for
it to be worth worrying about.

-- 
Ben Harris                                                   
<bjh21%netbsd.org@localhost>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>





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