Re: Question on the binutils tradlittlemips patch

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:23:01PM -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:19:53PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > I have them working in the case I care about - no backwards
> > compatibility at all.  We (Monta Vista) can get away with this :)
> > I've attached the patches.
> 
> This looks like what I have come up with as well.  I don't care about
> backward compatibility either.  If someone else wants to support
> broken crap that's their problem; in an age where we have scripts and
> makefiles to rebuild entire systems from source I can't see the point
> of binary compatibility.

Don't you wish?  My other hat is Debian, which can't just ditch
existing MIPS installations like that.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software                              Debian Security Team