From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11985 invoked by alias); 7 Jul 2006 13:28:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 11975 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jul 2006 13:27:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lug-owl.de (HELO lug-owl.de) (195.71.106.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:27:57 +0000 Received: by lug-owl.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E77A7F0301; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:27:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:28:00 -0000 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Mikhail Teterin , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: backward/forward compatibility of binutils Message-ID: <20060707132754.GH22573@lug-owl.de> References: <200607070250.17161@aldan> <20060707125112.GG22573@lug-owl.de> <20060707132223.GA21313@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+G3HLlWI7eRTl+h" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060707132223.GA21313@nevyn.them.org> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.12.3lug-owl X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00075.txt.bz2 --k+G3HLlWI7eRTl+h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1021 On Fri, 2006-07-07 09:22:23 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:51:12PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On the other hand, those patches didn't happen that often, so one > > probably _could_ do that. >=20 > ... but when it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. Of course. I didn't mention that it would be a nice thing to have. I'm actually opposed to it. > I'd ask that if you want to ship a libbfd for public use, only ship the > static library. It may be useful to ship the dynamic library, if only > because it saves a lot of space in as/ld/objcopy/objdump/strip, but gdb > may not want the same copy. Full ACK. MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 = _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg = _ _ O f=C3=BCr einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=C3=BCrger" | im Internet! | i= m Irak! O O O ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)= ); --k+G3HLlWI7eRTl+h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFErmFaHb1edYOZ4bsRAhkmAJ91wOaMs1EvZcN5yH+2kDfvEAmHaQCfZxo3 l+eUSydCr6SLymB+ejXKN2k= =m7tr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+G3HLlWI7eRTl+h--