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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!cargpc5.atmos.washington.edu!dbx From: dbx@atmos.washington.edu (Doug Burks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: binutils-2.7 on FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 19 Sep 1996 16:54:59 GMT Organization: Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Univ of Washington Lines: 24 Sender: dbx@cargpc5.atmos.washington.edu (Doug Burks) Message-ID: <51rtt3$b5t@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: dbx@atmos.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cargpc5.atmos.washington.edu Greetings, I recently installed FreeBSD-2.1.5-RELEASE on my PC at work and have been quite pleased with it. However (Isn't there always a "However"? :) ), I have a problem. I successfully installed GCC-2.7.2, but when I tried to compile a few C++ functions, the assembler complained about a ".weak" directive. I figured that GAS was simply out-of-date, so tried to install GNU binutils-2.7. However, that package does not compile out of the box. The closest existing configuration was for "freebsdelf", but the official FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE uses a.out as far as I can tell. I tried a few other configurations, including adding entries to the configure scripts. However, nothing has worked, and I can find nothing touching on this in the FAQ or FreeBSD Handbook (though my search was not exhaustive). Does anyone have any suggestions, solutions, comments, corrections, etc., or must I live with GCC-2.6.3 and the old GAS? Thank you much! Doug Burks dbx@atmos.washington.edu