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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!umelba.Triumf.CA!felawka From: felawka@umelba.Triumf.CA (L. Felawka) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: binutils-2.7 on FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: 20 Sep 1996 16:16:22 GMT Organization: TRIUMF Lines: 20 Message-ID: <51ug0m$q0p@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <51rtt3$b5t@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <51sncf$p8t@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: umelba.triumf.ca In article <51sncf$p8t@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au> John Hartley <jbh@labyrinth.net.au> writes: >Many people have been down this path!!! >My recommendation is to move over to >ELF using John Polstra's ELF-KIT. >Native ELF binary kernel support is available in current only so >you must use a loader elf-run with 2.1.5. However >GNU 2.7.2 compiler produces working code >in this configuration, while all the other batches etc >do not. ie templates don't work correctly ... libg++ will not compile ... >you get link errrors... the list goes on. Naw, the gcc-2.7.2 + libg++-2.7.1 combination works OK. Just make sure you apply the ".weak directive" patch plus the famous "repo-bsd" patch (for automatic template instantiation). The latter patch seems to be no longer available in the place mentioned in the g++ FAQ so I will post it separately. _____ Larry