Subject: NetBSD and GNU binutils
To: None <tech-ports@netbsd.org>
From: J.T. Conklin <jtc@cygnus.com>
List: tech-ports
Date: 10/28/1994 11:34:05
I'm very pleased with the effort in getting NetBSD/* support rolled
into the master sources.  I started doing it by myself shortly after I
started up with Cygnus, but I now see I should have called for
volunteers for the various NetBSD ports then.

I think that Andrew Cagney's work on binutils-2.5 that started this
cooperative process is great.  It conflicted with some of my changes
that I had made after the 2.5 branch was taken, so I've had to spend
some time reconciling the differences.  

For example, I had converted everything to use filenames of the form
<arch/cpu>nbsd.c, where Andrew used nbsd-<arch/cpu>.c.  I've decided
to keep the <arch/cpu>nbsd.c convention (primarily because it is
consistant with all the other supported a.out targets).

If the principals working on each port will contact me, I'll let you
know were the daily snapshots are availiable for ftp.  It will make
integration a lot easier if we are all working from similar code.

	--jtc