Re: [patch] Clean up NetBSD configs, fix NetBSD ELF configs

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:47:04PM +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > I thought it might be an issue with the age of the assembler.
> 
> No, the failure is because gcc 3.0 thinks that NetBSD i386 is a.out, but
> we switched to ELF in NetBSD 1.5...

That'd do it.

> > 1.5.2 being the latest official release of NetBSD, it would probably
> > be good if GCC 3 worked there out-of-box - I'll keep poking at this.
> 
> I definitely agree. But I feel it is too hard to get patches into
> gcc.

Yah.  We need a non-lossy patch submission queue, no argument.

> Look in the archive for e.g. NetBSD-sparc/ELF patches. They have
> been sent multiple times, with no response at all...

Matthew Green needs to be more of a nudzh about reminding people his
patches need to be reviewed.  Also, he should get himself write after
approval.  I'm pretty sure anything labelled "I need this committed
for me" goes to the bottom of the blanket-write people's review piles.

After a bit of archive digging, I have found the patches for
i386-netbsdelf; it just looks like no one thought to commit them to
the 3.0 branch.  They should be unobjectionable.  I'll have my friend
with the netbsd system try them out, and then we can get them added.

zw