[kde-freebsd] kde 3.1.1 broken on alpha

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 05:02:30AM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
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> On Thursday 08 May 2003 22:44, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> > [ Added freebsd-alpha to the CC list ]
> >
> > * Michael Nottebrock [Do, 08 Mai 2003 at 09:42 GMT]:
> > >> kdegames is still broken.  Who is going to fix it for 5.1?
> > >
> > > GCC bug. I recommend to not mark it broken though because it would
> > > remain=20 marked broken longer than necessary, given the heavy use of KDE
> > > on alpha ;)= =2E=20
> > > Let's wait for gcc 3.3 and keep our fingers crossed.
> >
> > According to my Google research it looks more like a bug in binutils.
> 
> Oops, right, binutils, not gcc. More like a general design flaw in binutils 
> than a bug (Richard Henderson rang a bell there, see 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-04/msg00202.html), but it's good that there's 
> at least a promising hack now.

I can certainly commit an elf64-alpha.c binutils patch.  However, someone
needs to test it and ensure me that I'm not going to break things worse.