In message <20031113134236.C1838@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, you write: 

-> I've modified crunchgen so that it no longer needs to parse each program's
-> Makefile to find the list of objects to build.  Instead it relies on the
-> program's Makefile having a ${PROG}.ro: ld -r ${OBJS} ${.TARGET} rule.
-> 
[...]
-> Also changed:
-> - Delete code for RENAME_SYMS - all getting too hard!

Hmm, I think this was necessary for MIPS with 2.95.3 and the 2.95.3-era
binutils, otherwise we'd overflow the GOT building large crunched binaries
(this is why the 1.6-branch MIPS installers don't have dhcp support; linking
in dhclient tipped the crunched binary used by the installer over the edge).

I haven't looked at the state of all this after the integraton of the new
gcc & binutils, but you should probably verify that it won't kill MIPS ports
before ripping it out (making sure rescue builds is a start; I think it 
didn't on MIPS platforms before Simon added the renaming code).

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@pobox.com
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