From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:47:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:47:21 -0400 Received: from are.twiddle.net ([64.81.246.98]:64424 "EHLO are.twiddle.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:46:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:47:04 -0700 From: Richard Henderson To: Keith Owens Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64 Message-ID: <20010821104704.A6190@twiddle.net> Mail-Followup-To: Keith Owens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010818182756.A29533@twiddle.net> <31011.998376800@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <31011.998376800@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>; from kaos@ocs.com.au on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:53:20PM +1000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:53:20PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > ... but why bother when bfd already does it for me? How about bfd is a bloated monstrosity. Right now libobj is just over 10k; you'll be looking at a _minimum_ of 150k to pull in only the linking code from libbfd.a. How about bfd is an unmaintainable nightmare? If you've not spent the last couple of years working on bfd, save your sanity and don't start. It would take only a day or three to fix up libobj to cross compile. If you don't want to do it, let someone else. r~